ports/140765: [patch] grammar error in portlint.1

Benjamin Kaduk kaduk at mit.edu
Sun Nov 22 05:50:01 UTC 2009


>Number:         140765
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       [patch] grammar error in portlint.1
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Nov 22 05:50:00 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Benjamin Kaduk
>Release:        8-current (old)
>Organization:
MIT Student Information Processing Board
>Environment:
FreeBSD periphrasis.mit.edu 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #12: Fri Jun 26 23:33:14 EDT 2009     kaduk at periphrasis.mit.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PERIPHRASIS  amd64

>Description:
portlint(1) recommends that porters use ${VARIABLE} instead of $(VARIABLE), though "they are semantically same", which is a grammar error
>How-To-Repeat:
cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portlint && make install && man portlint
>Fix:
--- portlint.1.orig     2009-11-21 23:12:39.000000000 -0500
+++ portlint.1  2009-11-21 23:12:49.000000000 -0500
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 .Pa ${VARIABLE}
 instead of
 .Pa $(VARIABLE) ,
-even though they are semantically same.
+even though they are semantically the same.
 .It Fl c
 Committer flag.
 It will add several checks useful only for committers.


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