Script started on Sat Sep  3 10:30:56 2011

[crees@zeus]~/workspace/ports/pcvs/mk_oddness% cat Makefile
USE_OPENLDAP=	yes

.include <bsd.port.pre.mk>

.if ${OPENLDAP_VER} > 22
openldap=	OPENLDAP_VER is OK!
.endif

echo:
	@echo ${openldap}

.include <bsd.port.post.mk>
[crees@zeus]~/workspace/ports/pcvs/mk_oddness% make echo
"Makefile", line 5: Malformed conditional (${OPENLDAP_VER} > 22)
"Makefile", line 7: if-less endif
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue

# WTF? Let's chop out the conditinals and test OPENLDAP_VER...

[crees@zeus]~/workspace/ports/pcvs/mk_oddness% sed -Ei.bak '/^\.[ie][fn][^c]/d' Makefile
[crees@zeus]~/workspace/ports/pcvs/mk_oddness% make -V OPENLDAP_VER
24

# Oh great, so it's defined, but only after bsd.port.post.mk.  I bet cool
# includes like bsd.emacs.mk don't fail like this. What am I supposed to do now?

[crees@zeus]~/workspace/ports/pcvs/mk_oddness% ^Dexit

Script done on Sat Sep  3 10:31:37 2011