Module Name: src Committed By: dholland Date: Fri Oct 15 05:46:48 UTC 2010
Modified Files: src/usr.bin/mkdep: mkdep.1 Log Message: Per PR 19359 note that mkdep doesn't handle all make metacharacters correctly; in particular, filenames containing '#' cause trouble, although '$' seems to be ok. Bump date. To generate a diff of this commit: cvs rdiff -u -r1.14 -r1.15 src/usr.bin/mkdep/mkdep.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/mkdep/mkdep.1 diff -u src/usr.bin/mkdep/mkdep.1:1.14 src/usr.bin/mkdep/mkdep.1:1.15 --- src/usr.bin/mkdep/mkdep.1:1.14 Mon Dec 12 22:49:37 2005 +++ src/usr.bin/mkdep/mkdep.1 Fri Oct 15 05:46:48 2010 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: mkdep.1,v 1.14 2005/12/12 22:49:37 wiz Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: mkdep.1,v 1.15 2010/10/15 05:46:48 dholland Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1990, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)mkdep.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 .\" -.Dd December 12, 2005 +.Dd October 15, 2010 .Dt MKDEP 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -124,3 +124,11 @@ .Nm command appeared in .Bx 4.3 Tahoe . +.Sh BUGS +Some characters special to +.Xr make 1 , +most notably the comment character, are not escaped correctly if they +appear in file names. +This can lead to unparseable output or silently cause dependencies to +be lost. +.\" (This problem is actually in gcc -M.)