NetBSD Problem Report #45568

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From: petri+netbsd@asd.fi
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Subject: make(1) refers to "Make - A Tutorial" but it should refer to "PMake - A Tutorial" by Adam De Boot
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>Number:         45568
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       make(1) refers to "Make - A Tutorial" but it should refer to "PMake - A Tutorial" by Adam De Boot
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          closed
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Nov 05 09:55:00 +0000 2011
>Closed-Date:    Sun Nov 13 18:29:38 +0000 2011
>Last-Modified:  Sun Nov 13 18:29:38 +0000 2011
>Originator:     Petri Laakso
>Release:        NetBSD-current
>Organization:
ASD
>Environment:
>Description:
make(1) manual page refers to "Make - A Tutorial" but it should refer to "PMake - A Tutorial" by Adam de Boor.

By googling "Make - A Tutorial" you end up to page http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/Make/index.html and assume, this was the document manual page author referred to.

But I think, the author meant to refer "PMake - A Tutorial" which
comes with NetBSD sources, so I suggest the following patch.
>How-To-Repeat:
By reading make(1) manual page

>Fix:
--- ./usr.bin/make/make.1       28 Aug 2011 03:54:07 -0000      1.195
+++ ./usr.bin/make/make.1       5 Nov 2011 09:49:21 -0000
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
 For a more thorough description of
 .Nm
 and makefiles, please refer to
-.%T "Make \- A Tutorial" .
+.%T "PMake \- A Tutorial" .
 .Pp
 .Nm
 will prepend the contents of the

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:
From: "David A. Holland" <dholland@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/45568 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/make
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:18:35 +0000

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	dholland
 Date:		Sun Nov 13 18:18:35 UTC 2011

 Modified Files:
 	src/usr.bin/make: make.1

 Log Message:
 Fix xref to the PSD; PR 45568 from Petri Laakso.


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.196 -r1.197 src/usr.bin/make/make.1

 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: dholland@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:29:38 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
fixed, thanks.

Note that the document in question is severely out of date, nearly to the
point of being useless. (this is my fault, I stuck my neck out to rewrite
it a couple years ago and haven't done it yet)


>Unformatted:

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