Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk
To: Tobias Nygren <tnn@NetBSD.org>
From: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 04/17/2007 21:28:52
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:48:30AM +0000, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> 
> Module Name:	pkgsrc
> Committed By:	tnn
> Date:		Tue Apr 17 10:48:29 UTC 2007
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	pkgsrc/mk: bsd.prefs.mk
> 
> Log Message:
> Save a fork() by not invoking the 'tr' utility.
> XXX: the OS_VERSION stuff could use a similar cleanup, replacing
> tr A-Z a-z occurences with the make :tl modifier.

Can we assume that all versions of make/bmake that are used will
support the :tl modifier? (I don't know the answer, just stating
why tr(1) was used previously).

Regards,
Alistair