Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:09:59 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.port.mk bsd.port.subdir.mk Message-ID: <20041219220959.GA49369@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200412092144.iB9LimTj092202@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200412092144.iB9LimTj092202@repoman.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:44:48PM +0000, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> krion 2004-12-09 21:44:48 UTC
> FreeBSD ports repository
> Modified files:
> Mk bsd.port.mk bsd.port.subdir.mk
> Log:
> * Add new command macros: DATE, FMT, MKTEMP, OBJDUMP,
> and use command macro SORT. [1]
What is the use of all these macros? Back when we first added them in
the Satoshi day, they were actually useful. 'ls' vs. '${LS}' isn't. We
had MKDIR so that the '-p' option would be used. We had TAR because we
tried to support both {Open,Net}BSD and FreeBSD.
I think we've forgotten the purpose of macros like these and just keep
adding them for command-line utils that have need to have them.
--
-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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