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authorchristos <christos@NetBSD.org>2003-05-23 17:25:10 +0000
committerchristos <christos@NetBSD.org>2003-05-23 17:25:10 +0000
commit7ce8fa7806d4d4e6dbdfc56562fedb7a857d4e0d (patch)
treea2dfd4e6cf3c5bbac0fa23b6919d3d5a3fc12e02 /usr.bin/make/make.1
parent539c89a0c48b4bdc86c94e675a00cb603d59bd8e (diff)
PR/10917: John Hawkinson: Document $MAKE and say which one we want to be using.
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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