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Date:      Thu, 15 Apr 2004 04:59:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Patrick Oonk <patrick@pine.nl>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   docs/65570: documented -C option not available in make(1)
Message-ID:  <200404151159.i3FBxNkr034084@www.freebsd.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <200404151200.i3FC0akg057336@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         65570
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       documented -C option not available in make(1)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 15 05:00:36 PDT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Patrick Oonk
>Release:        4.8
>Organization:
Pine Digital Security
>Environment:
FreeBSD xxxxxxxxxxx 4.8-RELEASE-p17 FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p17 #9: Thu Apr  1 15:31:55 CEST 2004     root@xxxxxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/xxxxx  i386
>Description:
The manual page of make(1) says:

-C directory
             Change to directory while running.

but if you use it you get:

make: illegal option -- C

>How-To-Repeat:
make -C /some/dir 
>Fix:
fix either the doc or make
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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