Re: CVS commit: src/share/man/man7

[Taylor R Campbell <campbell+netbsd-source-changes-d%mumble.net@localhost>]

> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 00:23:33 -0000 (UTC)
> From: christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
> 
> Yes, this is indeed a lot better. I prefer though:
> 
> MAN+= \
> bar.7 \
> foo.7
> 
> It is faster to parse, involves less typing, whitespace is cleaner.

This one doesn't have the same pattern for every line, so it makes
merging and sorting harder -- do M-x sort-lines on the content lines,
and you'll come up with:

MAN+= \
foo.7
bar.7 \

which does the wrong thing, and only if you're lucky will fail in an
obvious way rather than just silently omitting some entries.

In portable makefiles I usually write:

MAN= \
    bar.7 \
    foo.7 \
    # end of MAN

so at least each line has the same pattern, making merging and sorting
easier.