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Diffstat (limited to 'bmake.1')
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@@ -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 @@ -2049,3 +2056,26 @@ to disable this behavior. is derived from NetBSD .Xr make 1 . It uses autoconf to facilitate portability to other platforms. +.Pp +A +make +command appeared in +.At v7 . +This +make +implementation is based on Adam De Boor's pmake program which was written +for Sprite at Berkeley. +It was designed to be a parallel distributed make running jobs on different +machines using a daemon called +.Dq customs . +.Sh BUGS +The +make +syntax is difficult to parse without actually acting of the data. +For instance finding the end of a variable use should involve scanning each +the modifiers using the correct terminator for each field. +In many places +make +just counts {} and () in order to find the end of a variable expansion. +.Pp +There is no way of escaping a space character in a filename. |