From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 19 22:10:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D74B16A4CE; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 22:10:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5C7843D41; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 22:09:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iBJM9x71049403; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:09:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iBJM9xwP049402; Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:09:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 14:09:59 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20041219220959.GA49369@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200412092144.iB9LimTj092202@repoman.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200412092144.iB9LimTj092202@repoman.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.port.mk bsd.port.subdir.mk X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 22:10:00 -0000 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)