Re: [Patch] man page nsswitch(5) still references cached in -CURRENT

From: Stefan Esser <se_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:02:32 +0200
Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting Stefan Esser <se_at_FreeBSD.org> (from Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:55:33
> +0200):
>>> Why do you think it is a length limit which is the cause of the
>>> problems you see?
>>
>> Well, see the last two lines, 63 chars long, 10 for "OLD_FILES+=" and
>> 53 chars for the file name. It may be that files were added to the list
>> by a cut&paste action and that some characters had wrapped around to
>> the next line and were forgotten. But it is not relevant, just strange.
> 
> So you don't think it is a length limitation in make which causes the
> problem, but a length limitation somewhere before adding it to
> ObsoleteFiles.inc?

No, it probably is no limit in any part of the infrastructure.
Both these short lines were added with revision 1.7, 2 years ago,
but there were longer lines in that commit, which are complete.

So, there is no issue that needs fixing, except for the two
affected lines ...

Regards, STefan
Received on Mon Oct 08 2007 - 08:02:36 UTC

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