From owner-cvs-all Tue Aug 31 23:24:13 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3D3A1520F; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:24:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu) Received: from ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com (ppp18366.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.130.46]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA01321; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 02:23:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id CAA03127; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 02:22:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 02:22:03 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Nik Clayton Cc: Jun Kuriyama , 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> Reply-To: hoek@freebsd.org References: <199908311459.HAA73710@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990901002258.B71024@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <19990901002258.B71024@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 12:22:58AM +0100 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message