the ECHO macro is set to "echo" by default, but it is set to "true" if
make(1) is invoked with the -s option while ECHO_CMD is always set to
the echo command.
it is no longer required. Apologies to the various maintainers whom I
did not yet hear back from, but the ports freeze is coming up in a few
hours and I will be verifying all of these ports on a 4.1 machine
myself to catch any problems.
options `start' and `stop' now (unless I have forgotten any). This allows
us to call the scripts from /etc/rc.shutdown with the correct option.
The (42 or so) ports that already DTRT before are unchanged.
