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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 00:22:58 +0100
From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To: Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq Makefile
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On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 07:59:49AM -0700, Jun Kuriyama wrote:
> kuriyama    1999/08/31 07:59:49 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq Makefile 
>   Log:
>   We have used ${VAR}, not $(VAR ) . :- )

Well spotted.  

Convention in /usr/share/mk/*.mk shows that ${VAR} is preferred over
$(VAR), but make.1 doesn't imply that there's any difference between them.
I've always used ${VAR} (probably influenced by FreeBSD) but is there
any particular reason to use one form over the other?

N
-- 
 [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
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