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| author | sjg <sjg@NetBSD.org> | 2022-01-29 20:54:58 +0000 |
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| committer | sjg <sjg@NetBSD.org> | 2022-01-29 20:54:58 +0000 |
| commit | d44205014dec3d5da92c2032ef232cac3f17e1d6 (patch) | |
| tree | 4bc22126f35c502cf9a55b7cda8c81147ed6873d /usr.bin/make | |
| parent | 965097e36ef88a9afc50067dac3cf01c4d88e83b (diff) | |
Tweak description of local variable assignments
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/make')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/make/make.1 | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/make/make.1 b/usr.bin/make/make.1 index 4e614713dda..b879e96cf0f 100644 --- a/usr.bin/make/make.1 +++ b/usr.bin/make/make.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.303 2022/01/29 07:42:10 sjg Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.304 2022/01/29 20:54:58 sjg Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -715,10 +715,11 @@ of those targets out-of-date. target local variable assignments behave differently in that; .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent .It Ic \&+= -Only behaves as expected, if there is a previous -local assignment for the same target and variable. +Only appends to a previous local assignment +for the same target and variable. .It Ic \&:= -Is redundant since, the entire dependency line has already been expanded. +Is redundant with respect to Global variables, +which have already been expanded. .El .Pp The seven built-in local variables are as follows: |
