cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make make.1
    Yar Tikhiy 
    yar at comp.chem.msu.su
       
    Thu Oct 13 06:55:09 PDT 2005
    
    
  
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:53:13PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <200510121440.15780.jhb at freebsd.org>
>             John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> : make(1) does honor some special environment variables like MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX, 
> : but __MAKE_CONF is not one of them.  It is handled in sys.mk, not in the 
> : make(1) program itself.
> 
> We've already wasted too much time on this bikeshed...
> 
> However, nearly nobody uses %POSIX, so it should be in make(1).
> sys.mk is a standard part of the system, and make(1) should document
> it and its behavior.
No problem, __MAKE_CONF mentioned will be among other improvements
to the make(1) page that are to be committed in a day or two.
Ruslan doesn't object to it since now __MAKE_CONF will be described
in an apparent connection to sys.mk.
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