svn commit: r289736 - head/share/man/man5

Bryan Drewery bdrewery at FreeBSD.org
Thu Oct 22 04:50:53 UTC 2015


Author: bdrewery
Date: Thu Oct 22 04:50:52 2015
New Revision: 289736
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/289736

Log:
  Document that we use {} for variable expansion.
  
  MFC after:	1 week
  Sponsored by:	EMC / Isilon Storage Division

Modified:
  head/share/man/man5/style.Makefile.5

Modified: head/share/man/man5/style.Makefile.5
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man5/style.Makefile.5	Thu Oct 22 04:47:52 2015	(r289735)
+++ head/share/man/man5/style.Makefile.5	Thu Oct 22 04:50:52 2015	(r289736)
@@ -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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