docs/135165: make.1 fixes: punctuation, typos, tweaks

Alan R. S. Bueno alan.bsd at gmail.com
Mon Jun 1 22:40:01 UTC 2009


>Number:         135165
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       make.1 fixes: punctuation, typos, tweaks
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
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>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jun 01 22:40:00 UTC 2009
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Alan R. S. Bueno
>Release:        
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>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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