Re: make -V

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 07:38:05PM -0700, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> Sorry, to open this again...
> 
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 05:14:36 +1000, matthew green writes:
> >> No problem.  It would seem the consensus is leave things as is.
> >> It would have been useful to not have to re-work all the freebsd ports
> >> collection - which relies on make -V PKGNAME doing full expansion.
> 
> What if this behavior were controlled by a knob
> such that the default behavior is unchanged? 

That sounds like an excellent suggestion - thanks, Simon!
 
> This would allow a setting in sys.mk for FreeBSD to maintain
> compatability for them.
> 
> The patch is trivial (I had it laying around - just need to find it ;-)

Ah, yes, my perennial problem, too. :-)

Best,
Alistair