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authorMarc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-02-09 00:32:21 +0000
committerMarc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-02-09 00:32:21 +0000
commit86c35d2c24de471eacd022b23e1d7dffc93d3680 (patch)
tree9a5ce836addd29946e570d2589d033f6dc8ff71b /usr.bin/make
parentf3ac041a5586e256aa59bc2e6dda74191ed80192 (diff)
slight tweaks, ok jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/make')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/make/make.111
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/make/make.1 b/usr.bin/make/make.1
index 6f67d2d4528..b03724647d9 100644
--- a/usr.bin/make/make.1
+++ b/usr.bin/make/make.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: make.1,v 1.59 2004/01/23 23:08:47 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: make.1,v 1.60 2004/02/09 00:32:20 espie Exp $
.\" $OpenPackages$
.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.18 1997/03/10 21:19:53 christos Exp $
.\"
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
.Op Fl j Ar max_jobs
.Op Fl m Ar directory
.Op Fl V Ar variable
-.Op Ar variable Ns = Ns Ar value
+.Op Ar NAME Ns = Ns Ar value
.Bk -words
.Op Ar target ...
.Ek
@@ -121,9 +121,9 @@ before each command line in the makefile.
.It Fl t
Rather than re-building a target as specified in the makefile, create it
or update its modification time to make it appear up-to-date.
-.It Ar variable Ns = Ns Ar value
+.It Ar NAME Ns = Ns Ar value
Set the value of the variable
-.Ar variable
+.Ar NAME
to
.Ar value .
.El
@@ -364,6 +364,9 @@ Variables in
.Nm
are much like variables in the shell, and, by tradition,
consist of all upper-case letters.
+They are also called
+.Sq macros
+in various texts.
For portability, only periods, underscores, digits and letters should be
used for variable names.
The five operators that can be used to assign values to variables are as