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authorsjg <sjg@FreeBSD.org>2012-10-25 23:18:05 +0000
committersjg <sjg@FreeBSD.org>2012-10-25 23:18:05 +0000
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Merge bmake-20121010
Approved by: marcel (mentor)
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diff --git a/contrib/bmake/make.1 b/contrib/bmake/make.1
index 8a4faf3..702e478 100644
--- a/contrib/bmake/make.1
+++ b/contrib/bmake/make.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.206 2012/08/30 22:35:37 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.209 2012/10/08 15:09:48 christos Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" from: @(#)make.1 8.4 (Berkeley) 3/19/94
.\"
-.Dd August 30, 2012
+.Dd October 8, 2012
.Dt MAKE 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -2042,6 +2042,13 @@ or
To be compatible with Makefiles that do this, one can use
.Fl B
to disable this behavior.
+.Pp
+In compatibility mode, each command is run in a separate process.
+If the command contains any shell meta characters
+.Pq Ql #=|^(){};&<>*?[]:$`\e\en
+it will be passed to the shell, otherwise
+.Nm
+will attempt direct execution.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mkdep 1
.Sh HISTORY
@@ -2052,7 +2059,7 @@ command appeared in
This
.Nm
implementation is based on Adam De Boor's pmake program which was written
-for Sprint at Berkeley.
+for Sprite at Berkeley.
It was designed to be a parallel distributed make running jobs on different
machines using a daemon called
.Dq customs .
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