Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:03:16 -0500
From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To: Helmut Schneider <jumper99@gmx.de>
Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Makefile, ${VARIABLE}= vs. ${VARIABLE}?=
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> > Is it up to the maintainer to decide which variables shall be > overwritable, or are there rules? > Generally one wants to respect as much of the user's wishes as they can. So things like CC, CFLAGS, CPP, CXX, etc should have a question mark. MAINTAINER and other internal port variable are generally safe without the question mark. If the event your port has a slave than even these variables need to have question marks. -- Eitan Adler
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