ports/63545: linux-flashplugin6 bug

[Brandon D. Valentine]

The following reply was made to PR ports/63545; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <ports at brandon.dvalentine.com>
To: Stacey Roberts <stacey at vickiandstacey.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, mezz7 at cox.net
Subject: Re: ports/63545: linux-flashplugin6 bug
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 17:08:49 -0600

 On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 04:15:34PM -0600, Brandon D. Valentine wrote:
 > It appears I have run up against a known bug in pmake.  From the BUGS
 > section of make(1):
 
 Hmm.  This is not it, this is not it at all.  To be honest I'm very
 confused by the behavior I am seeing out of make.
 
 It refuses to expand variables inside exists statements at all.
 
 I have just put this in my port Makefile with the declarations, not
 inside of a target:
 
 .if exists(${PREFIX}/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins)
 PLUGINSDIR?=    ${PREFIX}/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins
 .elif exists(${X11BASE}/lib/linux-opera/plugins)
 PLUGINSDIR?=    ${PREFIX}/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins
 .endif
 
 If I execute 'make -VPLUGINSDIR' I get nothing.
 
 If I change it to read like this:
 
 .if exists(/usr/local/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins)
 PLUGINSDIR?=    ${PREFIX}/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins
 .elif exists(${X11BASE}/lib/linux-opera/plugins)
 PLUGINSDIR?=    ${PREFIX}/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins
 .endif
 
 Then 'make -VPLUGINSDIR' spits out:
 /usr/local/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins
 
 Anybody out there reading know why make would fail to expand PREFIX
 there?
 
 Thanks,
 
 Brandon D. Valentine
 -- 
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