From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 26 10:07:30 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA14017 for current-outgoing; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 10:07:30 -0700 Received: from hutcs.cs.hut.fi (root@hutcs.cs.hut.fi [130.233.192.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA14008 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 10:07:22 -0700 Received: from shadows.cs.hut.fi by hutcs.cs.hut.fi with SMTP id AA01779 (5.65c8/HUTCS-S 1.4 for ); Thu, 26 Oct 1995 19:07:10 +0200 Received: (hsu@localhost) by shadows.cs.hut.fi (8.6.10/8.6.10) id TAA04113; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 19:07:21 +0200 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 19:07:21 +0200 Message-Id: <199510261707.TAA04113@shadows.cs.hut.fi> From: Heikki Suonsivu To: John Fieber Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: John Fieber's message of 25 Oct 1995 16:01:07 +0200 Subject: Re: bsd.doc.mk and ${PRINTER} Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Now, sorry if this has been discussed before, but PRINTER is a > standard environment variable used on BSD systems (it's called LPDEST Ahhh... Yet another good reason to change it! I've been wanting to rework bsd.doc.mk but have not had the time yet. I plan to replace the PRINTER with FORMATS, referring to the output formats you wish to generate. Are there any known environment variable clashes with that name? Couldn't it be renamed to FREEBSD_something? Prefixing is a common and easy way to get rid of conflicts. I have been spending an hour today to sort this out. > Comments? Will it be a huge headache to change this? Shouldn't be. Compared to the trouble it causes it is a piece of cake, no matter how long it takes :-) -- Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND, hsu@cs.hut.fi home +358-0-8031121 work -4513377 fax -4555276 riippu SN