From owner-cvs-all Wed Sep 1 0:27:51 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dfw-ix6.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix6.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D739F156AB; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 00:27:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@stampede.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: (from smap@localhost) by dfw-ix6.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id CAA06351; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 02:25:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: from sji-ca3-113.ix.netcom.com(209.109.233.113) by dfw-ix6.ix.netcom.com via smap (V1.3) id rma006340; Wed Sep 1 02:25:18 1999 Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.6.9) id AAA78563; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 00:25:16 -0700 (PDT) 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 References: <199908311459.HAA73710@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990901002258.B71024@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 01 Sep 1999 00:25:15 -0700 In-Reply-To: Nik Clayton's message of "Wed, 1 Sep 1999 00:22:58 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 11 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk * From: Nik Clayton * 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? I prefer ${VAR} for variable dereferences since ()'s are already used for conditionals (.if defined(FOOBAR), etc.). Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message