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Date:      Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:48:03 -0800
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r231298 - head/etc
Message-ID:  <4F34F5E3.5010303@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <BFA09C62-79CF-4F29-A034-9641EDB52B4A@xcllnt.net>
References:  <201202092044.q19KiLUT027539@svn.freebsd.org> <BFA09C62-79CF-4F29-A034-9641EDB52B4A@xcllnt.net>

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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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