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Subject: Re: svn commit: r231298 - head/etc
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On 02/09/2012 14:15, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> On Feb 9, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
> 
>> Author: eadler
>> Date: Thu Feb  9 20:44:20 2012
>> New Revision: 231298
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/231298
>>
>> Log:
>>  Make etc/Makefile more conflict resistant
> 
> Nice. Question though: why not the less verbose
> 
> BIN1 = \
> 	foo \
> 	bar \
> 	baz
> 
> It's probably faster too, and friendlier when
> running "make -dv"

Just for fun I ran 'make INDEX' a bunch of times (which touches every
category and subdir) the existing way, and after changing it from += to
the same syntax as in src. There was no statistically significant
difference in run time.

Is there anything else that would be useful to test to see if there is a
good reason to make this change in ports?


Doug

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