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Date:      Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:53:13 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        jhb@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        yar@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ru@FreeBSD.org, gad@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make make.1
Message-ID:  <20051012.155313.60482924.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <200510121440.15780.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <20051012170509.GH99170@submonkey.net> <p06230905bf72f8f32a3b@[128.113.24.47]> <200510121440.15780.jhb@freebsd.org>

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In message: <200510121440.15780.jhb@freebsd.org>
            John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: make(1) does honor some special environment variables like MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX, 
: but __MAKE_CONF is not one of them.  It is handled in sys.mk, not in the 
: make(1) program itself.

We've already wasted too much time on this bikeshed...

However, nearly nobody uses %POSIX, so it should be in make(1).
sys.mk is a standard part of the system, and make(1) should document
it and its behavior.

Warner



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