Subject: Re: XARGS and similar in MAKE_ENV
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/27/2003 03:21:21
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:11:44AM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> 	apache adds XARGS=${XARGS} to MAKE_ENV.
> 	This breaks on Linux which has XARGS as "usr/bin/xargs -r".
> 	Should we have a policy of always quoting X=${X} values when
> 	adding to MAKE_ENV?

Yes, definitely.  I've been rather fanatical about this in my own pkgsrc
work.

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@netbsd.org>