From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Ceresoli Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 21:50:49 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] docs/manual: fix bash export syntax in example code In-Reply-To: <20151111185124.5ebd908f@free-electrons.com> References: <1447264061-21523-1-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net> <20151111185124.5ebd908f@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <5643AA29.6060606@lucaceresoli.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Thomas, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Dear Luca Ceresoli, > > On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:47:41 +0100, Luca Ceresoli wrote: >> To export a variable in .bashrc we shouldn't put a '$' at the >> beginning of the line, and there must be a '=' between key and value. > > Well the $ is here to indicate that it's the shell prompt. I would agree if this specific part of the manual were suggesting a shell command in general. Instead it's suggesting to add a line to ~/.bashrc, where a '$' does not make sense of course. Maybe I should have explained it in my commit message? -- Luca