[src/trunk]: src/usr.bin/mkdep Per PR 19359 note that mkdep doesn't handle al...

[dholland <dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/2cc770aab76d
branches:  trunk
changeset: 758038:2cc770aab76d
user:      dholland <dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Fri Oct 15 05:46:48 2010 +0000

description:
Per PR 19359 note that mkdep doesn't handle all make metacharacters
correctly; in particular, filenames containing '#' cause trouble,
although '$' seems to be ok. Bump date.

diffstat:

 usr.bin/mkdep/mkdep.1 |  12 ++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diffs (30 lines):

diff -r 473ff5a512f2 -r 2cc770aab76d usr.bin/mkdep/mkdep.1
--- a/usr.bin/mkdep/mkdep.1     Fri Oct 15 05:39:19 2010 +0000
+++ b/usr.bin/mkdep/mkdep.1     Fri Oct 15 05:46:48 2010 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: mkdep.1,v 1.14 2005/12/12 22:49:37 wiz Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: mkdep.1,v 1.15 2010/10/15 05:46:48 dholland Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1990, 1993
 .\"    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)mkdep.1    8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
 .\"
-.Dd December 12, 2005
+.Dd October 15, 2010
 .Dt MKDEP 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -124,3 +124,11 @@
 .Nm
 command appeared in
 .Bx 4.3 Tahoe .
+.Sh BUGS
+Some characters special to
+.Xr make 1 ,
+most notably the comment character, are not escaped correctly if they
+appear in file names.
+This can lead to unparseable output or silently cause dependencies to
+be lost.
+.\" (This problem is actually in gcc -M.)