Re: make -V

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

Sorry, to open this again...

On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 05:14:36 +1000, matthew green writes:
>> 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.

What if this behavior were controlled by a knob
such that the default behavior is unchanged? 

This would allow a setting in sys.mk for FreeBSD to maintain
compatability for them.

The patch is trivial (I had it laying around - just need to find it ;-)