Re: make -V

["Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg%juniper.net@localhost>]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 19:54:11 +0200, Alistair Crooks writes:
>> Not quite the same:
>> 
>> [10:04:20] agc@netbsd-vm2 ...pkgsrc/editors/ssam [10210] > make -V PKGNAME
>> ${DISTNAME}nb${PKGREVISION}

That's rather my point ;-)
That sort of output, isn't useful except when trying to debug things.
Which started me thinking about -dV

>Sorry, should have had some coffee before sending that last one.  My
>point was that, rather than change existing behavior in perhaps

No problem.  It would seem the consensus is leave things as is.
It would have been useful to not have to re-work all the freebsd ports
collection - which relies on make -V PKGNAME doing full expansion.