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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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