unquoted variables in /usr/share/mk/*.mk

Alexander Best alexbestms at wwu.de
Sun Apr 25 20:01:30 UTC 2010


hi there,

i was wondering why almost all variables in /usr/share/mk/*.mk are unquoted?
it's pretty obvious that something like

mkdir "(test)" ; echo ".include <bsd.prog.mk>" > "(test)"/Makefile ; make -C
"(test)" cleandir

will fail.

-- 
Alexander Best


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