[src/trunk]: src/usr.bin/make PR/10917: John Hawkinson: Document $MAKE and sa...

[christos <christos%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/56d99c28794d
branches:  trunk
changeset: 547572:56d99c28794d
user:      christos <christos%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Fri May 23 17:25:10 2003 +0000

description:
PR/10917: John Hawkinson: Document $MAKE and say which one we want to be using.

diffstat:

 usr.bin/make/make.1 |  15 ++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diffs (31 lines):

diff -r 473f54f530e1 -r 56d99c28794d usr.bin/make/make.1
--- a/usr.bin/make/make.1       Fri May 23 14:23:46 2003 +0000
+++ b/usr.bin/make/make.1       Fri May 23 17:25:10 2003 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.77 2003/04/16 09:44:07 wiz Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.78 2003/05/23 17:25:10 christos Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
 .\"    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -475,10 +475,19 @@
 A path to the directory where
 .Nm
 was executed.
-.It Va .MAKE
+.It Ev MAKE
 The name that
 .Nm
-was executed with.
+was executed with. For compatibily
+.Nm
+also sets
+.Va .MAKE
+with the same value.
+The preferred variable to use is
+.Ev MAKE
+because it is more compatible with other versions of
+.Nm
+and cannot be confused with the special target with the same name.
 .It Ev MAKEFLAGS
 The environment variable
 .Ql Ev MAKEFLAGS