Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:53:13 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: jhb@FreeBSD.org Cc: yar@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@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: <20051012.155313.60482924.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <200510121440.15780.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <20051012170509.GH99170@submonkey.net> <p06230905bf72f8f32a3b@[128.113.24.47]> <200510121440.15780.jhb@freebsd.org>
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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.
Warner
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