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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 01:45:08 -0700
From: Matthew Braithwaite <matt@braithwaite.net>
To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: New
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On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 03:37:45AM -0500, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote:
> I'm new to modifying/creating, I've taken a look at the handbook and also
> bsd.port.mk and can't figure out why this doesn't work like it should.
> 
> When i do make USE_FACILITY=something I get this error
> 
> su-2.04# make USE_FACILITY=something
> ===>  Extracting for isc-dhcp3-3.0.b2.9
> >> Checksum OK for dhcp-3.0b2pl9.tar.gz.
> ===>  Patching for isc-dhcp3-3.0.b2.9
> ===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for isc-dhcp3-3.0.b2.9
> Variable USE_FACILITY is recursive.

You need to use the `:=' assignment operator when you are assigning 
something to X that uses the value of X.  It's a `make', thing, not a 
port thing.



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