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Date:      Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:54:54 +0400
From:      Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, jhb@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ru@FreeBSD.org, gad@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make make.1
Message-ID:  <20051013135453.GC56193@comp.chem.msu.su>
In-Reply-To: <20051012.155313.60482924.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <20051012170509.GH99170@submonkey.net> <p06230905bf72f8f32a3b@[128.113.24.47]> <200510121440.15780.jhb@freebsd.org> <20051012.155313.60482924.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:53:13PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <200510121440.15780.jhb@freebsd.org>
>             John Baldwin <jhb@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.

-- 
Yar



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