On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 10:57:27PM +0000, Thomas Levine wrote:
> The normal port Makefile includes this "show" target.
>
> $ grep -A3 ^show: /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk
> show:
> .for _s in ${show}
> @echo ${${_s}:Q}
> .endfor
>
> Why would one use it rather than make -V?make -V doesn't expand variables recursively Won't change it, because it might break stuff that depends on it, and also, because it could sometimes be useful as it.
