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| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/make/make.1 | 24 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/make/make.1 b/usr.bin/make/make.1 index 22fb8664925..6a21aad0997 100644 --- a/usr.bin/make/make.1 +++ b/usr.bin/make/make.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: make.1,v 1.7 1996/09/02 16:04:13 briggs Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: make.1,v 1.8 1996/09/21 10:53:48 deraadt Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.15 1996/08/30 17:59:40 thorpej Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. @@ -403,6 +403,28 @@ A path to the directory where was executed. .It Va .OBJDIR A path to the directory where the targets are built. +At startup, +.Nm make +searches for an alternate directory to place target files -- it +will attempt to change into this special directory. +.Nm make +first tries to change into the directory named by the environment +variable +.Ev MAKEOBJDIR . +If that fails, it tries to change into the directory named +.Pa obj.$MACHINE +(if the environment variable +.Ev MACHINE +is not set, +.Nm make +calls +.Xr uname 2 +to determine the type of machine). If it still has found no special +directory, it next tries the directory named +.Pa obj . +Finally, if none of the above directories are available +.Nm make +will settle for and use the current directory. .It Ev MAKEFLAGS The environment variable .Ql Ev MAKEFLAGS |