Subject: Re: Makefiles or So Many Ways Of Getting Package Versions
To: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/30/2003 15:26:31 
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:44:31 -0700
> Randy Beaudreault <maccult@pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> 	$ cd ...../category/package
> 	$ make show-var VARNAME=PKGVERSION

Forking all those make's is terribly slow. It would be fine by me if
we were to insist on putting the package version near the top in plain
English.

Frederick