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author | Marc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2004-02-09 00:32:21 +0000 |
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committer | Marc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2004-02-09 00:32:21 +0000 |
commit | 86c35d2c24de471eacd022b23e1d7dffc93d3680 (patch) | |
tree | 9a5ce836addd29946e570d2589d033f6dc8ff71b /usr.bin/make | |
parent | f3ac041a5586e256aa59bc2e6dda74191ed80192 (diff) |
slight tweaks, ok jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/make')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/make/make.1 | 11 |
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 |