Subject: bin/10917: make(1) omits mention of MAKE
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/30/2000 16:54:14
>Number:         10917
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       make(1) omits mention of MAKE
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Aug 30 16:55:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     John Hawkinson
>Release:        -current of 15 Aug 2000
>Organization:
MIT
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD zorkmid.mit.edu 1.5E NetBSD 1.5E (ZORKMID-$Revision: 1.2 $) #54: Fri Aug 18 01:53:49 EDT 2000 jhawk@zorkmid.mit.edu:/usr/local/netbsd-current/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ZORKMID i386


>Description:
	make(1) discussues ${.MAKE}, but not ${MAKE}.
Functionally, the two appear to be synonmyous. But within a tree,
such as ours, use needs to be consistent. It should be possible to do
things like:

	make MAKE=/usr/local/bin/pmake foobar

however if ${.MAKE} and ${MAKE} are set seperately, then
makefiles that use ${MAKE} will get pmake and ${.MAKE} will not.

This is undesirable.
>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:
	1:	Please document ${MAKE}
	2:	Please document the preferred style for NetBSD makefiles
		(I presume ${MAKE} over ${.MAKE})
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: