Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 22:39:09 GMT From: "Alan R. S. Bueno" <alan.bsd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/135165: make.1 fixes: punctuation, typos, tweaks Message-ID: <200906012239.n51Md9kR003263@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200906012240.n51Me02p054207@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 135165
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: make.1 fixes: punctuation, typos, tweaks
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
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>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Jun 01 22:40:00 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Alan R. S. Bueno
>Release:
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
Fixes:
. Missing full stop.
. Upper case the first character of an description.
. Section headings do not need to be quoted. From OpenBSD's make.1, revision 1.81.
. Plural of suffix is suffixes. From OpenBSD's make.1, revision 1.61.
. s/seperating/separating/.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Apply the patch.
Patch attached with submission follows:
Index: make.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/make/make.1,v
retrieving revision 1.117
diff -u -r1.117 make.1
--- make.1 7 Apr 2009 19:49:38 -0000 1.117
+++ make.1 1 Jun 2009 22:03:45 -0000
@@ -960,7 +960,7 @@
is the substring of
.Ar old_string
to be replaced in
-.Ar new_string
+.Ar new_string .
.It Cm T
Replaces each word in the variable with its last component.
.It Cm U
@@ -1108,7 +1108,7 @@
may be any one of the following:
.Bl -tag -width "Cm XX"
.It Cm ||
-logical
+Logical
.Tn OR
.It Cm &&
Logical
@@ -1298,7 +1298,7 @@
Loops are not being
detected and targets that form loops will be silently ignored.
.El
-.Sh "SPECIAL TARGETS"
+.Sh SPECIAL TARGETS
Special targets may not be included with other targets, i.e., they must be
the only target specified.
.Bl -tag -width Ic
@@ -1590,7 +1590,7 @@
.It Ic .SUFFIXES
Each source specifies a suffix to
.Nm .
-If no sources are specified, any previous specified suffices are deleted.
+If no sources are specified, any previous specified suffixes are deleted.
.It Ic .WARN
Each source specifies a warning flag as previously described for the
.Fl x
@@ -1603,7 +1603,7 @@
line will influence all sub-makes.
Several flags can be specified on a single
.Ic .WARN
-target by seperating them with blanks.
+target by separating them with blanks.
.El
.Sh REMAKING MAKEFILES
If the special target
@@ -1748,7 +1748,7 @@
.Ar expression
in a test is very simple-minded.
Currently, the only form that works is
-.Ql .if ${VAR} op something
+.Ql .if ${VAR} op something .
For instance, you should write tests as
.Ql .if ${VAR} == "string"
not the other way around, which would give you an error.
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