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Subject: Re: setting a var 
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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 00:37:41 +0000
From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de>
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Chuck Robey writes:
>I have a problem, I'd love to hear suggestions as to how to fix it/
>
>I have a port nearly ready, of a2ps.  The trouble is that, in building the
>port, a variable is required to be set, that of PAPERSIZE.  I have that
>part of it completely worked out (very nicely) but I want to force, in the
>package phase, the veriable PAPERSIZE to be embedded into the package
>name.
>
>In itself, that's no problem, and I have that done.  The trouble comes in
>when I want to insure that the same PAPERSIZE variable that was used in
>building the port, is used in doing the packaging.  At the beginning of
>the build, I drop a ".media" file into $(WRKDIR), having the value of the
>PAPERSIZE variable.  That works fine.  What I want is to be able to
>intialize (during the package phase) PAPERSIZE from reading the text in
>that .media file.  THAT's the part I can't yet get done.
>
>I know I could easily do this using GNU make, but this is the port's
>makefile, not the source's, and bsd make executes it.  Anyone know how I
>can get this done?
>
>One thing ... I tried doing PAPERSIZE!= cat $(WRKDIR)/.media ... it says
>work/.media: not found.  Like it's trying to execute the file.
>

a2ps is already part of apsfilter. Take a look at how apsfilter handles
it maybe ? Or, drop the port since it's redundant ?

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