Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 07:53:55 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about/issues with new OPTIONS framework Message-ID: <50220D03.1080306@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5022063D.3090106@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20120806160425.GA23270@icarus.home.lan> <502161C6.70801@FreeBSD.org> <20120807193029.GA26868@icarus.home.lan> <5022063D.3090106@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 08/08/2012 07:25, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Actually, that raises an important point, because the constructed
> variable names like 'mysql55-client_SET' should perhaps have
> syntactically significant characters like '-', '+' mapped to '_'
Interesting. A very quick test shows that make(1) variables seem to
work just fine despite those significant characters:
% cat Makefile
Foo-bar=3D wibble
Baz+QUX=3D flonk
all:
@echo ${Foo-bar}
@echo ${Baz+QUX}
% make
wibble
flonk
That came as quite a surprise to me.
Cheers,
Matthew
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