>>>>> On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> About this, I would also like to know if we are allowed to use >> "MAKEOPTS +=..." (and the same for other variables in ebuild) >> instead or it should be avoided for some reason.
> += wasn't allowed because it isn't compatible with bash-3.1 (and > earlier) if I remember correctly This is almost right: The += operator was introduced with bash 3.1, so previously it couldn't be used in the tree because compatibility with 3.0 was required. > but that ship has long sailed and += syntax is used all over the > tree (and by the package manager itself!) > so feel free :) It's "officially" allowed since more than two years ago: <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20091109-summary.txt> Ulrich
