per-port make.conf options and hyphenated port names

[Matthew Pounsett]

On Jan 21, 2014, at 04:36 , Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 21.01.2014 03:01, Matthew Pounsett wrote:
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>> Digging through /usr/ports/Mk/ I can’t find anywhere that $UNIQUENAME is modified to guarantee that it references a safe variable name (i.e. I don’t see anywhere that $UNIQUENAME has reserved characters removed from it before use).  So, given that a lot of times $UNIQUENAME is just the name of the port, and a lot of ports have hyphens in their names, how is this meant to be dealt with?
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>> Thanks for any pointers or help!
> 
> Excuse me hijacking the thread but doesn't ports-mgmt/portconf do almost the same?

It might, but not being part of the core ports makefiles it’s not a candidate for use inside tinderbox and other port-building tools.