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| author | christos <christos@NetBSD.org> | 2003-05-23 17:25:10 +0000 |
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| committer | christos <christos@NetBSD.org> | 2003-05-23 17:25:10 +0000 |
| commit | 7ce8fa7806d4d4e6dbdfc56562fedb7a857d4e0d (patch) | |
| tree | a2dfd4e6cf3c5bbac0fa23b6919d3d5a3fc12e02 /usr.bin/make/make.1 | |
| parent | 539c89a0c48b4bdc86c94e675a00cb603d59bd8e (diff) | |
PR/10917: John Hawkinson: Document $MAKE and say which one we want to be using.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/make/make.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/make/make.1 | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/make/make.1 b/usr.bin/make/make.1 index 11226b92793..3d669eb0f58 100644 --- a/usr.bin/make/make.1 +++ b/usr.bin/make/make.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.77 2003/04/16 09:44:07 wiz Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.78 2003/05/23 17:25:10 christos Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -475,10 +475,19 @@ Makefile parsing, lists only those targets encountered thus far. A path to the directory where .Nm was executed. -.It Va .MAKE +.It Ev MAKE The name that .Nm -was executed with. +was executed with. For compatibily +.Nm +also sets +.Va .MAKE +with the same value. +The preferred variable to use is +.Ev MAKE +because it is more compatible with other versions of +.Nm +and cannot be confused with the special target with the same name. .It Ev MAKEFLAGS The environment variable .Ql Ev MAKEFLAGS |
