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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