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authorsjg <sjg@NetBSD.org>2022-01-29 20:54:58 +0000
committersjg <sjg@NetBSD.org>2022-01-29 20:54:58 +0000
commitd44205014dec3d5da92c2032ef232cac3f17e1d6 (patch)
tree4bc22126f35c502cf9a55b7cda8c81147ed6873d /usr.bin/make
parent965097e36ef88a9afc50067dac3cf01c4d88e83b (diff)
Tweak description of local variable assignments
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/make')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/make/make.19
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@@ -715,10 +715,11 @@ of those targets out-of-date.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: