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| author | Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse <jasper@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2011-09-20 14:12:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse <jasper@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2011-09-20 14:12:14 +0000 |
| commit | cafc03b392a793ed452bbf8926a9d0c755fd3f0a (patch) | |
| tree | dd4702643afff3464a7f652f71009d439385ce59 /usr.bin | |
| parent | 72eafef24fde24e155edd658ae6e9193cad7126b (diff) | |
add a blurb to caveats about variable expansions to multiple values
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/pkg-config/pkg-config.1 | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/pkg-config/pkg-config.1 b/usr.bin/pkg-config/pkg-config.1 index 4fa47d6ff15..3a0bc2187ab 100644 --- a/usr.bin/pkg-config/pkg-config.1 +++ b/usr.bin/pkg-config/pkg-config.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: pkg-config.1,v 1.23 2011/06/25 14:36:19 jasper Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: pkg-config.1,v 1.24 2011/09/20 14:12:13 jasper Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2006 Chris Kuethe <ckuethe@openbsd.org> .\" @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: June 25 2011 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: September 20 2011 $ .Dt PKG-CONFIG 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -215,6 +215,15 @@ The flag that can be encountered in Cflags is not treated differently from .Fl I in this implementation. +.It Ev Variables +Due to the way variables are retrieved and expanded, in this version of +.Nm +certain syntax that is valid in the original implementation is not +allowed in this +.Nm . +For example storing requirements in a variable, and only using this +variable in the Requires field is not allowed. +Otherwise all the variable values can be treated as a (valid) package. .It Ev Whitespace .Nm does not go to great lengths to try to fix whitespace abuse. |