svn commit: r291784 - stable/9/share/man/man5

Bryan Drewery bdrewery at FreeBSD.org
Fri Dec 4 18:01:16 UTC 2015


Author: bdrewery
Date: Fri Dec  4 18:01:14 2015
New Revision: 291784
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/291784

Log:
  MFC r289736:
  
    Document that we use {} for variable expansion.

Modified:
  stable/9/share/man/man5/style.Makefile.5
Directory Properties:
  stable/9/share/man/man5/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/9/share/man/man5/style.Makefile.5
==============================================================================
--- stable/9/share/man/man5/style.Makefile.5	Fri Dec  4 18:01:11 2015	(r291783)
+++ stable/9/share/man/man5/style.Makefile.5	Fri Dec  4 18:01:14 2015	(r291784)
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd January 8, 2005
+.Dd October 21, 2015
 .Dt STYLE.MAKEFILE 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -117,6 +117,13 @@ i.e., no space between the variable name
 .Ic = .
 Keep values sorted alphabetically, if possible.
 .It
+Variables are expanded with
+.Sy {} ,
+not
+.Sy () .
+Such as
+.Va ${VARIABLE} .
+.It
 Do not use
 .Ic +=
 to set variables that are only set once


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