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Date:      Sun, 19 Aug 2001 17:57:02 +0200 (CEST)
From:      dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   ports/29876: bsd.port.mk: MLINKS Description wrong
Message-ID:  <200108191557.f7JFv2k92506@home.dinoex.sub.org>

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>Number:         29876
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       bsd.port.mk: MLINKS Description wrong
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Aug 19 09:00:02 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Dirk Meyer
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
privat
>Environment:

>Description:
	while trying to use MLINKS as described,
	I found this documentaion is misleading.
	MLINKS= a.1 b.1
	will do: ln -sf a.1 b.1
	which gives a symbolic link named "b.1.gz" pointing to "a.1.gz"


>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

--- bsd.port.mk.orig	Mon Aug  6 17:51:57 2001
+++ bsd.port.mk	Sun Aug 19 17:52:21 2001
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@
 #				  example, if your port has "man/man1/foo.1" and
 #				  "man/mann/bar.n", set "MAN1=foo.1" and "MANN=bar.n".
 #				  The available sections chars are "123456789LN".
-# MLINKS		- A list of <target, source> tuples for creating links
+# MLINKS		- A list of <source, target> tuples for creating links
 #				  for manpages.  For example, "MLINKS= a.1 b.1 c.3 d.3"
 #				  will do an "ln -sf a.1 b.1" and "ln -sf c.3 and d.3" in
 #				  appropriate directories.  (Use this even if the port
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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