Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: make --help typo Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:14:07 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00C2_01C4976A.59693090" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Sep 2004 18:14:09.0703 (UTC) FILETIME=[F7BA7370:01C49761] Note-from-DJ: This may be spam ------=_NextPart_000_00C2_01C4976A.59693090 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I reckoned the tail of the make --help output looked a bit wrong... -----------snip!----------- dk AT mace /artimi> make --help | tail -10 -w, --print-directory Print the current directory. --no-print-directory Turn off -w, even if it was turned on implicitly. -W FILE, --what-if=FILE, --new-file=FILE, --assume-new=FILE Consider FILE to be infinitely new. --warn-undefined-variables Warn when an undefined variable is referenced. Run in UNIX mode (use sh.exe subshell). Run in Win32 mode (use Win32 subshell). This program built for i686-pc-cygwin Report bugs to -----------snip!----------- and it particularly hit home when I needed to know whether the w was capitalized in --win32 or not (it isn't). Here's what surely counts as a trivial patch to fix it: --- main-3.80-1.c 2004-09-10 18:21:12.444251700 +0100 +++ main.c 2004-09-10 18:22:04.163663700 +0100 @@ -341,8 +341,10 @@ static const char *const usage[] = N_("\ --warn-undefined-variables Warn when an undefined variable is referenced.\n"), #ifdef __CYGWIN__ - N_("Run in UNIX mode (use sh.exe subshell).\n"), - N_("Run in Win32 mode (use Win32 subshell).\n"), + N_("\ + --unix Run in UNIX mode (use sh.exe subshell).\n"), + N_("\ + --win32 Run in Win32 mode (use Win32 subshell).\n"), #endif NULL }; [ Also attached to avoid linewrap] CGF, you released the last version of make, and I can't see that there's likely to be any great need to roll another in the foreseeable future, but maybe you'd like to drop this into your personal source tree just in case sometime you do end up doing another release? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... ------=_NextPart_000_00C2_01C4976A.59693090 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="make-main.c-docs-patch.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="make-main.c-docs-patch.diff" --- main-3.80-1.c 2004-09-10 18:21:12.444251700 +0100 +++ main.c 2004-09-10 18:22:04.163663700 +0100 @@ -341,8 +341,10 @@ static const char *const usage[] =3D N_("\ --warn-undefined-variables Warn when an undefined variable is reference= d.\n"), #ifdef __CYGWIN__ - N_("Run in UNIX mode (use sh.exe subshell).\n"), - N_("Run in Win32 mode (use Win32 subshell).\n"), + N_("\ + --unix Run in UNIX mode (use sh.exe subshell).\n"), + N_("\ + --win32 Run in Win32 mode (use Win32 subshell).\n"), #endif NULL }; ------=_NextPart_000_00C2_01C4976A.59693090 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ ------=_NextPart_000_00C2_01C4976A.59693090--