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| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/make/make.1 | 22 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/make/make.1 b/usr.bin/make/make.1 index 6c9e7fd51d4..7d0b1905fd3 100644 --- a/usr.bin/make/make.1 +++ b/usr.bin/make/make.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: make.1,v 1.20 1999/09/25 14:44:00 espie Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: make.1,v 1.21 1999/11/06 14:43:57 espie Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.18 1997/03/10 21:19:53 christos Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 @@ -1196,7 +1196,25 @@ For loops are expanded before tests, so a fragment such as: \&.fi .Ed won't work, and should be rewritten the other way around. - +.Pp +Syntax errors in for loops yield erroneous line numbers. +.Pp +End of file handling is not consistent. Some missing newlines are reported +as weird errors, others are ignored silently. +.Pp +Command-line expansion as in +.Bd -literal +VAR != cat /dev/null +.Ed +does not distinguish between problems in the command and empty command +result. +.Pp +When handling pre-BSD 4.4 archives, +.Nm +may erroneously mark archive members as out of date if the archive name +was truncated. +.Pp +Variable handling and for loop expansion are incredibly inefficient. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr mkdep 1 .Sh HISTORY |