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| author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2017-07-11 23:38:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2017-07-11 23:38:54 +0000 |
| commit | 305d935e0fdc51d584ed770407b8848dc9dd459c (patch) | |
| tree | 0fbb78e12265e248f7e8f0c72fbd186e8d6add54 /share/mk | |
| parent | 4f0325874809f86543c7e9e01e8a29aa41731914 (diff) | |
explain the limitations of PROGS; joint work with espie@
Diffstat (limited to 'share/mk')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/mk/bsd.README | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/mk/bsd.README b/share/mk/bsd.README index f51370948e3..0d2e070ec93 100644 --- a/share/mk/bsd.README +++ b/share/mk/bsd.README @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $OpenBSD: bsd.README,v 1.72 2017/07/11 22:17:28 schwarze Exp $ +# $OpenBSD: bsd.README,v 1.73 2017/07/11 23:38:53 schwarze Exp $ # $NetBSD: bsd.README,v 1.17 1996/04/13 02:08:08 thorpej Exp $ # @(#)bsd.README 5.1 (Berkeley) 5/11/90 @@ -412,9 +412,13 @@ grammar.c grammar.h: grammar.y ${YACC.Y} -o grammar.c grammar.y -<bsd.prog.mk> may be used to build several programs in a single directory. -Just define the list of programs as PROGS instead of using PROG. -For instance PROGS = foo bar +<bsd.prog.mk> provides a limited capability to build several +programs in a single directory by defining the list of programs +as PROGS instead of using PROG, for instance: PROGS = foo bar + +This only works if all programs in the directory use the same +compiler and linker flags. Also, the programs cannot use source +files with the same file name but different content. Each program of the list, for instance foo, will use SRCS_foo instead of SRCS to find its sources. SRCS_foo still defaults to foo.c, and |