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From: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Adding AUTOMAKE_FLAGS to bsd.port.mk
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Maxim

> 1. Even if *this* particular version doesn't use environment variables, there
> is no guarantee that some future version will not use them;
> 2. Environment variables potentially could be used to modify behaviour of
> commands invoked by automake.


good points.

You may as well keep the XXX_ENV XXX (command) and XXX_ARGS style
to remain consistant.


Roger


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