-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Kris Kennaway wrote:
| ********************************************************************** | ********************* NOTE TO PORT DEVELOPERS ************************ | ********************************************************************** | | Variable assignments with != are bad! Try as hard as you can to avoid | using them -- especially in Mk/*! Every time something processes your | makefile it will spawn a command, even if it is not relevant for the | operation being performed. If you need to run shell commands, try to | isolate them within a makefile target. You can avoid code duplication | by assigning the *shell commands* (not their output) to a variable and | inserting it into your code block. | | e.g. instead of | | -- | VARIABLE!= do some shell stuff; do some other stuff | | target: | echo ${VARIABLE} | -- | | do this (or similar): | | -- | VARIABLE_CMDS= do some shell stuff; do some other stuff | | target: | echo $(${VARIABLE_CMDS}) | -- | | This defers the command execution to the point where the target runs, so | in the case when the target is *not* run, then you avoid wasting one or | more process executions. Yes, in theory. Any clue why this doesn't work? SCHED_NAME= sysctl -n kern.sched.name all: ~ echo $(${SCHED_NAME}) | | Kris | - -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEAREKAAYFAkhaMxIACgkQwMJqmJVx945CEgCePoNe6vevue/Hfww4DpM0vJrM r/gAn0aAJ+Y68FqLSi7axSdOHuo5EiY4 =6LX2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"