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Date:      Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:25:20 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com>
Cc:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Alejandro Pulver <alejandro@varnet.biz>
Subject:   Re: bsd.wx.mk
Message-ID:  <20051121212519.GA7444@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051121232023.5ed476db@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
References:  <20051121163721.60580f01@phobos.mars.bsd> <20051121211004.GA15250@soaustin.net> <20051121232023.5ed476db@it.buh.tecnik93.com>

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On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 11:20:23PM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:10:04 -0600
> linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) wrote:
>=20
> > >    .warning "FreeBSD versions prior to 5.x do not support Unicode"
> >=20
> > Some of them don't support .warning, either :-)
> >=20
> > Other than that it looks pretty good.  My only concern is with a few
> > short variable names (_UC) that might conflict with names used in
> > ports themselves?  Perhaps I'm just being paranoid.
>=20
> Or perhaps we need something like KNOBS with reserved words ?

That would be too complicated.  System components like bsd.*.mk should
just stay away from simple variable names that might be used
elsewhere.

Kris


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