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| 959f3c4c JH |
1 | This patch adds some quote marks to make pod2man happier. |
| 2 | The passages in question come from standard dist units. I don't think | |
| 3 | it's worthwhile to patch the standard units just to silence pod2man. | |
| 4 | Instead, I think pod2man ought to be fixed. | |
| 5 | ||
| 6 | For now, we'll at least keep most people happy and patch up | |
| 7 | Porting/Glossary. | |
| 8 | ||
| 9 | Andy Dougherty July 9, 1998 | |
| 10 | ||
| bdf957e2 JH |
11 | --- Glossary.mc Tue Oct 26 16:41:48 1999 |
| 12 | +++ Glossary Tue Oct 26 16:41:48 1999 | |
| 13 | @@ -2336,7 +2336,7 @@ | |
| 959f3c4c JH |
14 | make_set_make='#' # If your make program handles this for you, |
| 15 | make_set_make="MAKE=$make" # if it doesn't. | |
| 16 | I used a comment character so that we can distinguish a | |
| 17 | - 'set' value (from a previous config.sh or Configure -D option) | |
| 18 | + 'set' value (from a previous config.sh or Configure '-D' option) | |
| 19 | from an uncomputed value. | |
| 20 | ||
| 21 | mallocobj (mallocsrc.U): | |
| bdf957e2 | 22 | @@ -2451,7 +2451,7 @@ |
| 959f3c4c JH |
23 | whole thing is then lower-cased. |
| 24 | ||
| 25 | n (n.U): | |
| 26 | - This variable contains the -n flag if that is what causes the echo | |
| 27 | + This variable contains the '-n' flag if that is what causes the echo | |
| 28 | command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is | |
| 29 | $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c". | |
| 30 | ||
| bdf957e2 | 31 | @@ -2781,9 +2781,9 @@ |
| 959f3c4c JH |
32 | /bin/sh, though it's possible that some systems will have /bin/ksh, |
| 33 | /bin/pdksh, /bin/ash, /bin/bash, or even something such as | |
| 34 | D:/bin/sh.exe. | |
| 35 | - This unit comes before Options.U, so you can't set sh with a -D | |
| 36 | + This unit comes before Options.U, so you can't set sh with a '-D' | |
| 37 | option, though you can override this (and startsh) | |
| 38 | - with -O -Dsh=/bin/whatever -Dstartsh=whatever | |
| 39 | + with '-O -Dsh=/bin/whatever -Dstartsh=whatever' | |
| 40 | ||
| 41 | shar (Loc.U): | |
| 42 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. | |
| bdf957e2 | 43 | @@ -2921,7 +2921,7 @@ |
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44 | |
| 45 | spitshell (spitshell.U): | |
| 46 | This variable contains the command necessary to spit out a runnable | |
| 47 | - shell on this system. It is either cat or a grep -v for # comments. | |
| 48 | + shell on this system. It is either cat or a grep '-v' for # comments. | |
| 49 | ||
| 50 | split (models.U): | |
| 51 | This variable contains a flag which will tell the C compiler and loader |