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| author | Marc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2012-10-12 21:44:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Marc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2012-10-12 21:44:20 +0000 |
| commit | d64c1c8cefe12e118c98d1f9acc98d7577348247 (patch) | |
| tree | 795f0220e656bcc396dcc5bc2995017771ca63d6 /usr.bin/make/make.1 | |
| parent | b187a17b6078410440d7f9e68f33e83d49ddaf04 (diff) | |
Document duplicate inference rules. That's posix behavior, and what we do.
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| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/make/make.1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/make/make.1 b/usr.bin/make/make.1 index 23b169fe797..7e94424dad7 100644 --- a/usr.bin/make/make.1 +++ b/usr.bin/make/make.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: make.1,v 1.99 2012/10/11 14:56:59 espie Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: make.1,v 1.100 2012/10/12 21:44:19 espie Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.18 1997/03/10 21:19:53 christos Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" from: @(#)make.1 8.4 (Berkeley) 3/19/94 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: October 11 2012 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: October 12 2012 $ .Dt MAKE 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -486,6 +486,9 @@ but inference rules already read are still known by and they are marked as inactive. Redefining the corresponding suffix (or suffixes) will re-active the rule. .Pp +In case of duplicate inference rules with the same suffix combination, +the new rule overrides the old one. +.Pp For maximal portability, suffixes should start with a dot. .Sh VARIABLE ASSIGNMENTS Variables in |