Bug in make man page.

Collin Park collin at hpindda.HP.COM
Thu Oct 26 09:28:30 AEST 1989


sorry for posting without being a wizard, but i couldn't resist...

> which is ofcourse backwards, it should read:
           ^^^^^^^^
	To this naive user of 'make', this "of course" wasn't obvious.

> 
> 	... unless the target is a directory or is a dependency of the
> 	special name ".PRECIOUS".
> 
> I wonder how long this has been in the man page.  My guess is forever, and
> that it slips by since people read it, get it wrong, but ofcourse it's right
					 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> so they never notice they read the manpage wrong.

	Unfortunately I read the manpage right, tried it, it didn't work, 
	so gave up.  I think 'make' told me that it didn't know how to make 
	".PRECIOUS" or something like that.

	Guess some of us are too literal-minded....



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