Module Name: src
Committed By: rillig
Date: Tue Jul 12 22:51:12 UTC 2022
Modified Files:
src/usr.bin/make: make.1
Log Message:
make.1: fix markup
Not all square brackets are options, some are wildcards.
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.311 -r1.312 src/usr.bin/make/make.1
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.
Modified files:
Index: src/usr.bin/make/make.1
diff -u src/usr.bin/make/make.1:1.311 src/usr.bin/make/make.1:1.312
--- src/usr.bin/make/make.1:1.311 Tue Jul 12 22:45:05 2022
+++ src/usr.bin/make/make.1 Tue Jul 12 22:51:12 2022
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.311 2022/07/12 22:45:05 rillig Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.312 2022/07/12 22:51:12 rillig Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ starts with that as its current working
Variables in make behave much like macros in the C preprocessor.
.Pp
Variable assignments have the form
-.Sq Ar NAME No Ar op No Ar value ,
+.Sq Ar NAME Ar op Ar value ,
where:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Ar NAME
@@ -1176,8 +1176,8 @@ are both set only while the
.Sq Pa Makefiles
are being parsed.
If you want to retain their current values, assign them to a variable
-using assignment with expansion:
-.Pq Ql Cm \&:= .
+using assignment with expansion
+.Sq Cm \&:= .
.It Va .PATH
A variable that represents the list of directories that
.Nm
@@ -1269,7 +1269,7 @@ The standard shell wildcard characters
.Pf ( Ql * ,
.Ql \&? ,
and
-.Ql Oo Oc )
+.Ql \&[] )
may
be used.
The wildcard characters may be escaped with a backslash
@@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@ Orders every word in variable in reverse
Shuffles the words in variable.
The results will be different each time you are referring to the
modified variable; use the assignment with expansion
-.Pq Ql Cm \&:=
+.Sq Cm \&:=
to prevent such behavior.
For example,
.Bd -literal -offset indent
