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Author SHA1 Message Date
rillig
041e06d511 Changed all <programlisting> environments so that the first relevant
column starts in column 1. Everything else is left to the style sheet.
2007-06-01 11:07:24 +00:00
rillig
4f6d6a97a3 Added a caveat in the Makefiles section that I just stumbled upon.
Added some questions regarding the tools framework.
2007-03-08 16:00:16 +00:00
rillig
f091955572 Using printf is another way to print an arbitrary string. 2006-06-29 13:37:46 +00:00
reed
fd3950fc40 Change "backspace" into "backslash".
Reported by  Jonathan Towne in PR #33480.
2006-05-15 16:28:19 +00:00
rillig
ad74bfb9df Reindented all <programlisting>s. 2005-10-23 11:25:58 +00:00
rillig
8ba088c4d6 Various fixes for typos and grammar by Leonard Schmidt. 2005-09-02 19:12:37 +00:00
rpaulo
6e5fb2dbec Replace <pkg> by <filename role="pkg"> as discussed on netbsd-docs@.
ok hubertf@
2005-07-27 21:29:50 +00:00
wiz
5fc33803c9 Add an id to all sect[123]. 2005-05-24 12:14:42 +00:00
rillig
c39fdc1cf4 All list variables should have ``plural'' names, e.g. PKG_OPTIONS or
DISTFILES.
2005-05-16 09:27:48 +00:00
rillig
b513806977 Added documentation for a bug in bmake, and a reference to the package
regress/make-quoting, where a more complete example and a workaround is
presented.
2005-05-15 23:46:20 +00:00
rillig
0390e4d07f Using <command> instead of <varname> to quote the .for loops. 2005-05-15 20:31:45 +00:00
rillig
40fa53ab96 Applied the "detab" tab->space conversion. 2005-05-14 22:34:59 +00:00
rillig
3ce24f9a87 Applied the quoting rules to my own examples. "Converting an internal
list to an external list" had been wrong.
2005-05-14 03:30:56 +00:00
rillig
a84e59e2b1 Replaced a "." in an example with "foo", which is better distinguishable
from the end of the sentence, which also is a dot.
2005-05-14 03:26:09 +00:00
rillig
a4df11476f Added a subsection called "Quoting guideline", which describes some of the
common quoting errors.
2005-05-14 03:23:20 +00:00
rillig
167f28256e Added a subsection about naming conventions for Makefile variables. 2005-05-13 23:28:08 +00:00
rillig
c8b01f08a6 Added a comment describing from which files I extracted the information I
needed for this documentation.
2005-05-13 22:48:09 +00:00
rillig
25ca0bb461 Minor spelling and wording fixes. 2005-05-11 21:29:13 +00:00
rillig
419b675134 Documented the (inconsistent) behavior of .for loops. Renamed ``atoms'' to
``strings''. Removed trailing whitespace.
2005-05-11 21:19:45 +00:00
rillig
99892aa7b1 Fixed the paragraphs that documented the quoting mechanisms. They had been
horribly incorrect.
2005-05-11 20:53:27 +00:00
wiz
5683ea907d Some fixes and minor improvements. 2005-05-10 22:41:10 +00:00
rillig
4b12963866 The make(1) man page is currently wrong, so don't make users take this
chapter too serious for now.
2005-05-10 01:15:54 +00:00
rillig
7c91d439ea Added first (still incomplete) version of the guide for programming with
Makefiles.
2005-05-10 00:27:43 +00:00