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authordholland <dholland@NetBSD.org>2017-06-22 13:21:21 +0000
committerdholland <dholland@NetBSD.org>2017-06-22 13:21:21 +0000
commitf4e5ea70549e471816e73fd587253b236ee542b4 (patch)
treecc0f5e5a342dbac1513100a6ae605e7f6091f406 /usr.bin/make
parenta40843fa842d0d4d6d5dc79384d7ce7b8315678f (diff)
Document what the magic variable .MAKE.EXPAND_VARIABLES actually does.
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-rw-r--r--usr.bin/make/make.112
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/make/make.1 b/usr.bin/make/make.1
index c8b53380aaf..014bfe3277e 100644
--- a/usr.bin/make/make.1
+++ b/usr.bin/make/make.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.267 2017/06/19 19:58:24 christos Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.268 2017/06/22 13:21:21 dholland Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" from: @(#)make.1 8.4 (Berkeley) 3/19/94
.\"
-.Dd June 19, 2017
+.Dd June 22, 2017
.Dt MAKE 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -207,7 +207,9 @@ Print debugging information about target list maintenance.
.It Ar V
Force the
.Fl V
-option to print raw values of variables.
+option to print raw values of variables, overriding the default behavior
+set via
+.Va .MAKE.EXPAND_VARIABLES.
.It Ar v
Print debugging information about variable assignment.
.It Ar x
@@ -781,6 +783,10 @@ from which generated dependencies are read.
A boolean that controls the default behavior of the
.Fl V
option.
+If true, variable values printed with
+.Fl V
+are fully expanded; if false, the raw variable contents (which may
+include additional unexpanded variable references) are shown.
.It Va .MAKE.EXPORTED
The list of variables exported by
.Nm .