changing a Makefile based on user input

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Thu Aug 5 09:41:56 PDT 2004


Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 04:30:14PM +0200, Sven Esbjerg wrote:
>>>Note that there is already a misc/rtfm port, with is an unrelated
>>>piece of software.  You could perhaps call your port 'rt-faq-manager'.
>>  
>> Hmmm... I guess that would be possible. My first thought was RTFM.
> 
> Yeah -- that could work too.  I don't think there would be any problem
> with having two ports of the same name except for case differences,
> but ICBW.

Requiring case-sensitive filenames is not a good idea if you can choose 
otherwise.  There are lots of filesystems (ISO-9660, HFS+, CIFS) which can't 
distinguish between a directory called "rtfm" and one called "RTFM", some of 
which are even used by people running FreeBSD.  :-)

-- 
-Chuck



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