[patch] [PATCH] Fixes the bug

0001-man-make.conf.5-Document-shlex-a-bit-bug-309941.patch (text/plain), 1.38 KB, created by Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) on 2013-08-11 21:33:23 UTC

From a52de52b53ebcaaebf2439193e66a4379f4d9ca4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Berntsen <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 23:32:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] man/make.conf.5: Document shlex a bit, bug 309941

---
 man/make.conf.5 | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5
index 236fdf0..8e80a47 100644
--- a/man/make.conf.5
+++ b/man/make.conf.5
@@ -4,7 +4,16 @@ make.conf \- custom settings for Portage
 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
 \fB/etc/make.conf\fR and \fB/etc/portage/make.conf\fR
 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
-This file contains various variables that are used by Portage.
+
+This file contains various variables that are used by Portage. The file has a
+newline-delimited list of \fI<key>=<value>\fR pairs (see the default file for
+examples) which are accessible from the environment of ebuilds. It supports
+simple shell\-like expansion of the form \fIvar="${var}"\fR, the source
+keyword and variable substituton, but not some of the more advanced BASH
+features like arrays and special parameter expansions. For more details, see
+the Simple lexical analysis documentanion:
+\fLhttp://docs.python.org/2/library/shlex.html\fR.
+.br
 Portage will check the currently\-defined environment variables
 first for any settings.  If no environment settings are found,
 Portage then checks the make.conf files. Both /etc/make.conf and
-- 
1.8.1.5