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.)
