Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 02:22:03 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq Makefile Message-ID: <19990901022203.D2551@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com> In-Reply-To: <19990901002258.B71024@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 12:22:58AM %2B0100 References: <199908311459.HAA73710@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990901002258.B71024@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 12:22:58AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
>
> 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?
One could argue that using $(VAR) makes it easier to distinguish make
variables from shell variables.
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