Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 18:13:39 -0500
From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To: Aristedes Maniatis <amaniatis@apache.org>
Cc: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: ${INSTALL_DATA} problems
Message-ID: <20160908231339.GC15471@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <3f536359-c17a-d226-7ddc-7264b5af7c97@apache.org>
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On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 08:29:12AM +1000, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > Maybe the Makefile language will become clearer to me one day, but > I've been using FreeBSD since 4.0 and it hasn't clicked yet. Don't worry, the FreeBSD ports framework does things with the Makefile language that was never intended by make's designers :-) We do try to document things in the Porter's Handbook, but sometimes the only thing to do is wade into bsd.port.mk and friends and read the code. (Not recomended for the faint of heart, though.) mcl
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