Re: make -V

["Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg%juniper.net@localhost>]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 08:58:43 +0200, Alistair Crooks writes:
>In pkgsrc, we have the obvious "expand the VAR" behavior in bsd.pkg.mk:
>
>show-var:
>        @${ECHO} ${${VARNAME}:Q}
>
>[23:14:38] agc@netbsd-vm2 ...pkgsrc/editors/ssam [10004] > make show-var VARNA
>ME=PKGNAME
>ssam-1.9nb1

Yes, but this is the sort of indirection etc that started me thinking
on this topic.
Simply doing

make -V PKGNAME

would have been much simpler and more obvious if it could have
been relied on to produce an expanded result.