[33775] trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfiledev.xml

[markd at macports.org]

Revision: 33775
          http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/33775
Author:   markd at macports.org
Date:     2008-02-04 18:11:15 -0800 (Mon, 04 Feb 2008)

Log Message:
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Specify legal characters for variant names.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfiledev.xml

Modified: trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfiledev.xml
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--- trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfiledev.xml	2008-02-05 02:10:22 UTC (rev 33774)
+++ trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfiledev.xml	2008-02-05 02:11:15 UTC (rev 33775)
@@ -354,9 +354,9 @@
 variant debug   { configure.args-append --enable-debug }</programlisting>
 
       <note>
-        <para>Variant names must not contain hyphens; use underscores instead.
-        For example, use <code>no_x11</code> rather than
-        <code>no-x11</code>.</para>
+        <para>Variant names may contain only the characters A-Z, a-z, and the
+        underscore character <quote>_</quote>. Therefore, take care to never
+        use hyphens in variant names.</para>
       </note>
 
       <para>In the example variant declaration below, the configure argument

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