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in message <20040202001816.GA30336@xor.obsecurity.org>,
wrote Kris Kennaway thusly...
>
> On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 05:19:13PM -0500, parv wrote:
> 
> > ...Should i file a PR to remove useless -C option from man page for
> > 4.8-p14 ?
> 
> No..4.8 is not maintained except for security fixes.

Even though man page & the binary will remain inconsistent w/ each
other?  And, as usage of 'make -C <dir>' increases in ports, people
increasingly keep asking about that in one way or other?

(I just want to be clear i am proposing only a change in
documenation, not the software of make.)


  - Parv

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