Re: make -V

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 10:16:21AM -0700, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 08:58:43 +0200, Alistair Crooks writes:
> >In pkgsrc, we have the obvious "expand the VAR" behavior in bsd.pkg.mk:
> >
> >show-var:
> >        @${ECHO} ${${VARNAME}:Q}
> >
> >[23:14:38] agc@netbsd-vm2 ...pkgsrc/editors/ssam [10004] > make show-var 
> >VARNA
> >ME=PKGNAME
> >ssam-1.9nb1
> 
> Yes, but this is the sort of indirection etc that started me thinking
> on this topic.
> Simply doing
> 
> make -V PKGNAME
> 
> would have been much simpler and more obvious if it could have
> been relied on to produce an expanded result.

Not quite the same:

[10:04:20] agc@netbsd-vm2 ...pkgsrc/editors/ssam [10210] > make -V PKGNAME
${DISTNAME}nb${PKGREVISION}
[10:04:28] agc@netbsd-vm2 ...pkgsrc/editors/ssam [10211] >

Regards,
Alistair