# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-28 17:20:56 -0400:
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
>
> > yup. or the fact that /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz
> > documents conditionals in the form #keyword instead of .keyword
> > (that might work, i haven't tried, but shouldn't the tutorial be
> > updated? even if the # forms work they surely look deprecated from
> > the fact that i haven't seen a single use in the system makefiles)
>
> Well, what you ought to use is the make(1) man page, which is reasonably
> decent. The "#" command introducers don't work because "#" is the
> comment introducer.
I didn't say (or mean) I got confused by the discrepancy. I read
ports' Makefiles (and those in /usr/ports/Mk) quite often, and
anyone can quite easily tell contents of the whole
/usr/share/doc/psd directory is pretty old, so I had no difficulty
figuring out the case. But outdated, misleading documentation can be
worse than no documentation IMO. The tutorial should be fixed.
> > hm, i don't think i made myself clear with the previous para. how
> > about this: is the pmake tutorial mentioned above carved in stone or
> > are updates allowed?
>
> That's a political question, and probably should be asked on current.
> The answer you're going to get, though, is to go ahead and write up your
> changes, and see what kind of a reception they get. You won't get anyone
> to agree to give you permission to make changes until they see what those
> changes are.
sure. I wasn't suggesting I wanted to commit (don't have commit
access, either) any unreviewed changes.
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