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Date:      Sat, 21 Aug 1999 19:40:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tim Vanderhoek <tim@ppp18344.on.bellglobal.com>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: misc/6612: bsd.man.mk can't handle man pages with%
Message-ID:  <199908220240.TAA63771@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR misc/6612; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tim Vanderhoek <tim@ppp18344.on.bellglobal.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, sjr@home.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/6612: bsd.man.mk can't handle man pages with%
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 22:39:09 -0400 (EDT)

 >
 >        bsd.man.mk can't handle man pages with ":"s, since it uses
 >        the ":T:S" constructs to extract elements.
 
 Still more followup: OpenBSD has fixed this in usr.bin/make/parse.c.
 Unfortunately, I just reviewed their fix more closely and was rather
 repulsed by the code that was written.  Nonetheless, the fix is correct in
 (intended, if not actual) functionality.
 


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