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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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