From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sun Oct 29 01:14:10 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCBC2E53628 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 01:14:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markmi@dsl-only.net) Received: from asp.reflexion.net (outbound-mail-210-126.reflexion.net [208.70.210.126]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5A78938EA for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2017 01:14:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markmi@dsl-only.net) Received: (qmail 2321 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2017 00:14:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rtc-sm-01.app.dca.reflexion.local) (10.81.150.1) by 0 (rfx-qmail) with SMTP; 29 Oct 2017 00:14:03 -0000 Received: by rtc-sm-01.app.dca.reflexion.local (Reflexion email security v8.40.3) with SMTP; Sat, 28 Oct 2017 20:14:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 14954 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2017 00:14:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iron2.pdx.net) (69.64.224.71) by 0 (rfx-qmail) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 29 Oct 2017 00:14:03 -0000 Received: from [192.168.1.25] (c-76-115-7-162.hsd1.or.comcast.net [76.115.7.162]) by iron2.pdx.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 17498EC7C1F; Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:14:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Millard Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 10.3 \(3273\)) Subject: Re: SF mastersites Message-Id: <467A9534-3B8B-4A99-9788-3F915CA938EC@dsl-only.net> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:14:02 -0700 To: gurenchan@gmail.com, FreeBSD Ports X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3273) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 01:14:10 -0000 blubee blubeeme gurenchan at gmail.com wrote on Sat Oct 28 05:33:38 UTC 2017: > what does [:tl] even mean here? There's nothing about it on the whole = page: > = https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-distfiles.h= tml Also in a later message: > thanks for that tip but how would I know to look at man [1 make] for > something like that? ${NAME:tl} is Makefile notation even in Makefiles having nothing to do with ports (or potentially even FreeBSD). There probably is lots of involved Makefile notation not separately documented in makefile-distfiles.html or other parts of porters-handbook/ . Generally on BSD's, Linux's, and the like the Makefile notation is documented in the man page for the make variation in use (make, gmake, fmake, etc.). Across types of systems "make" can vary which variant it refers to. So, various man pages for "make" can disagree. The one in the environment in question needs to be consulted unless one knows an alternate name as used in an alternate environment. So many standards to choose from. . . =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard markmi at dsl-only.net