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authoryar <yar@FreeBSD.org>2008-03-04 11:28:54 +0000
committeryar <yar@FreeBSD.org>2008-03-04 11:28:54 +0000
commit80cc01776a9ab95796ea0925052069017f5a9612 (patch)
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Move a stray paragraph on .Ev MAKEFLAGS to where it belongs.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/make/make.128
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/make/make.1 b/usr.bin/make/make.1
index 034fda2..1d52291 100644
--- a/usr.bin/make/make.1
+++ b/usr.bin/make/make.1
@@ -667,6 +667,20 @@ command line, except for
are appended to the
.Va .MAKEFLAGS
variable.
+.Pp
+When passing macro definitions and flag arguments in the
+.Ev MAKEFLAGS
+environment variable,
+space and tab characters are quoted by preceding them with a backslash.
+When reading the
+.Ev MAKEFLAGS
+variable from the environment,
+all sequences of a backslash and one of space or tab
+are replaced just with their second character
+without causing a word break.
+Any other occurrences of a backslash are retained.
+Groups of unquoted space, tab and newline characters cause word
+breaking.
.It Va .MAKEFLAGS
Initially, this global variable contains
.Nm Ns 's
@@ -731,20 +745,6 @@ can appear in
only if added by the makefile itself;
it will affect sub-makes only, via
.Ev MAKEFLAGS .
-.Pp
-When passing macro definitions and flag arguments in the
-.Ev MAKEFLAGS
-environment variable,
-space and tab characters are quoted by preceding them with a backslash.
-When reading the
-.Ev MAKEFLAGS
-variable from the environment,
-all sequences of a backslash and one of space or tab
-are replaced just with their second character
-without causing a word break.
-Any other occurrences of a backslash are retained.
-Groups of unquoted space, tab and newline characters cause word
-breaking.
.It Va MFLAGS
This variable is provided for backward compatibility and
contains all the options from the
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