On 1 Mar 2012 11:26, "Matthew Seaman" <matt...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > Dear all, > > bsd.commands.mk has the following: > > FILE?= /usr/bin/file > > which is unfortunate, given that ${FILE} is used in several thousand > ports, generally as a loop control variable for iterating through a list > of files. In fact, I can only find about 8 places where the file(1) > program is intended. > > This obvious conflict of meanings seems pretty undesirable to me. Am I > missing something? Is there any reason to keep the status quo rather > than changing the bsd.commands.mk variable to FILE_CMD and making the > corresponding changes in those 8 places? > > Cheers, > > Matthew >
I think that the loop control variables should be renamed to lower case. Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"