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| author | rillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org> | 2005-05-16 09:18:27 +0000 |
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| committer | rillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org> | 2005-05-16 09:18:27 +0000 |
| commit | c38978cf6b39088715b582c65afc4d68b2a27d1e (patch) | |
| tree | 85ad919d24978d3622dcb247336fba089cd77e24 /bootstrap | |
| parent | 6463647f8c44fb97e9fa221ca4e56bb13e884002 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-c38978cf6b39088715b582c65afc4d68b2a27d1e.tar.gz | |
Documented how .for loops split their value list (by whitespace, not by
shell-style words).
Diffstat (limited to 'bootstrap')
| -rw-r--r-- | bootstrap/bmake/make.1 | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bootstrap/bmake/make.1 b/bootstrap/bmake/make.1 index 5caa6c3e2d1..bfd8caf9e65 100644 --- a/bootstrap/bmake/make.1 +++ b/bootstrap/bmake/make.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.3 2005/05/11 14:39:32 rillig Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.4 2005/05/16 09:18:27 rillig Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -1033,6 +1033,16 @@ inside the body of the for loop. The number of words must come out even; that is, if there are three iteration variables, the number of words provided must be a multiple of three. +.Pp +.\" FIXME: .Ic is not the right markup, but it looks good. +.Ic WARNING : +Other than the way a +.Dq word +is interpreted by the modificators, a +.Ic .for +loop statement splits the expression at sequences of whitespace. +Single quotes, double quotes and backslashes do not have a special +meaning in this case. .Sh COMMENTS Comments begin with a hash .Pq Ql \&# |