bin/181576: make is bmake but man make documents pmake

Steve Wills swills at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 27 02:00:01 UTC 2013


>Number:         181576
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       make is bmake but man make documents pmake
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Aug 27 02:00:00 UTC 2013
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>Originator:     Steve Wills
>Release:        10-CURRENT r254887
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>Environment:
FreeBSD meatwad.mouf.net 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #1 r254887: Sun Aug 25 22:43:45 UTC 2013     root at meatwad.mouf.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MEATWAD  amd64

>Description:
make is bmake, but man make documents pmake. man make starts with:


NAME
     make -- maintain program dependencies

SYNOPSIS
     make [-BeikNnqrstWwX] [-C directory] [-D variable] [-d flags]
          [-f makefile] [-I directory] [-J private] [-j max_jobs]
          [-m directory] [-T file] [-V variable] [variable=value] [target ...]

DESCRIPTION
     make is a program designed to simplify the maintenance of other programs.
     Its input is a list of specifications as to the files upon which programs
     and other files depend.  If no -f makefile makefile option is given, make
     will try to open `makefile' then `Makefile' in order to find the specifi-
     cations.  If the file `.depend' exists, it is read (see mkdep(1)).

     This manual page is intended as a reference document only.  For a more
     thorough description of make and makefiles, please refer to PMake - A
     Tutorial.

But make is clearly bmake:

% make -h
usage: make [-BeikNnqrstWwX] 
            [-C directory] [-D variable] [-d flags] [-f makefile]
            [-I directory] [-J private] [-j max_jobs] [-m directory] [-T file]
            [-V variable] [variable=value] [target ...]
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