cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make make.1

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 09:13:30AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <200510121009.j9CA9aE3026075 at repoman.freebsd.org>
>             Yar Tikhiy <yar at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> : yar         2005-10-12 10:09:36 UTC
> : 
> :   FreeBSD src repository
> : 
> :   Modified files:
> :     usr.bin/make         make.1 
> :   Log:
> :   __MAKE_CONF doesn't really belong here because it is
> :   a FreeBSD extension of sys.mk.  A xref to make.conf(5)
> :   will be enough here.
> :   
> :   Requested by:   ru
> 
> I disagree.  It is already hard enough to find info about __MAKE_CONF,
> and since it is part of the base system, this seems like an artificial
> distinction.
> 
__MAKE_CONF doesn't fall under "make sets or knows about the following
internal variables or environment variables".  Rather, it's a FreeBSD
specific feature, it doesn't have any direct connection to the make
utility (as well as CPUTYPE, CFLAGS, etc.).  As such, it shouldn't
be documented in the make(1) manpage.  OTOH, build(7) could benefit
from talking more about make.conf(5), while having __MAKE_CONF only
documented in make.conf(5) is fine.  We really don't need any more
duplication.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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