On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 06:12:00PM -0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On 2018-10-22, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote:
>
> > There are some technical reasons to put a space before the =, because
> > it DOES let things be unambiguous for make.
> >
> > (say, if S=-c++, PKGNAME${S}=somevalue will NOT do what you expect)
>
> That construct is exceedingly rare in port Makefiles.
> In fact, I can't find a single example outside of bsd.port.mk.
>
> And it would be more reasonable not to permit characters like '+'
> in variable names in the first place.
Except that you can't without breaking existing Makefiles...
