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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make make.1
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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.

Warner