Since we install GNU make as gmake replace make with gmake in the manpage where it makes sense. Index: doc/make.1 --- doc/make.1.orig +++ doc/make.1 @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ -.TH MAKE 1 "26 May 2023" "GNU" "User Commands" +.TH GMAKE 1 "31 May 2022" "GNU" "User Commands" .SH NAME -make \- GNU Make utility to maintain groups of programs +gmake \- GNU Make utility to maintain groups of programs .SH SYNOPSIS -.B make +.B gmake [\fIOPTION\fR]... [\fITARGET\fR]... .SH DESCRIPTION .LP The -.I make +.I gmake utility will determine automatically which pieces of a large program need to be recompiled, and issue the commands to recompile them. The manual describes the GNU implementation of @@ -15,15 +15,15 @@ the GNU implementation of which was written by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath, and is currently maintained by Paul Smith. Our examples show C programs, since they are very common, but you can use -.B make +.B gmake with any programming language whose compiler can be run with a shell command. In fact, -.B make +.B gmake is not limited to programs. You can use it to describe any task where some files must be updated automatically from others whenever the others change. .LP To prepare to use -.BR make , +.BR gmake , you must write a file called the .I makefile that describes the relationships among files in your program, and provides @@ -35,17 +35,17 @@ Once a suitable makefile exists, each time you change this simple shell command: .sp 1 .RS -.B make +.B gmake .RE .sp 1 suffices to perform all necessary recompilations. The -.B make +.B gmake program uses the makefile description and the last-modification times of the files to decide which of the files need to be updated. For each of those files, it issues the commands recorded in the makefile. .LP -.B make +.B gmake executes commands in the .I makefile to update one or more @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ is typically a program. If no .B \-f option is present, -.B make +.B gmake will look for the makefiles .IR GNUmakefile , .IR makefile , @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ If .I makefile is '\-', the standard input is read. .LP -.B make +.B gmake updates a target if it depends on prerequisite files that have been modified since the target was last modified, or if the target does not exist. @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ previous one: is equivalent to .BR "\-C " /etc. This is typically used with recursive invocations of -.BR make . +.BR gmake . .TP 0.5i .B \-d Print debugging information in addition to normal processing. @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ The debugging information says which files are being c remaking, which file-times are being compared and with what results, which files actually need to be remade, which implicit rules are considered and which are applied---everything interesting about how -.B make +.B gmake decides what to do. .TP 0.5i .BI \-\-debug "[=FLAGS]" @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ for debugging while remaking makefiles, shows all recipes that are run even if they are silent, and .I why shows the reason -.BR make +.BR gmake decided to rebuild each target. Use .I none to disable all previous debugging flags. @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ If several options are used to specify several directories, the directories are searched in the order specified. Unlike the arguments to other flags of -.BR make , +.BR gmake , directories given with .B \-I flags may come directly after the flag: @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ option, the last one is effective. If the .B \-j option is given without an argument, -.BR make +.BR gmake will not limit the number of jobs that can run simultaneously. .TP 0.5i \fB\--jobserver-style=\fR\fIstyle\fR @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ This also prints the version information given by the .B \-v switch (see below). To print the data base without trying to remake any files, use -.IR "make \-p \-f/dev/null" . +.IR "gmake \-p \-f/dev/null" . .TP 0.5i \fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-question\fR ``Question mode''. @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ Touch files (mark them up to date without really chang instead of running their commands. This is used to pretend that the commands were done, in order to fool future invocations of -.BR make . +.BR gmake . .TP 0.5i .B \-\-trace Information about the disposition of each target is printed (why the target is @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ being rebuilt and what commands are run to rebuild it) .TP 0.5i \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR Print the version of the -.B make +.B gmake program plus a copyright, a list of authors and a notice that there is no warranty. .TP 0.5i @@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ Print a message containing the working directory before and after other processing. This may be useful for tracking down errors from complicated nests of recursive -.B make +.B gmake commands. .TP 0.5i .B \-\-no\-print\-directory @@ -360,9 +360,9 @@ Without it is almost the same as running a .I touch command on the given file before running -.BR make , +.BR gmake , except that the modification time is changed only in the imagination of -.BR make . +.BR gmake . .TP 0.5i .B \-\-warn\-undefined\-variables Warn when an undefined variable is referenced. @@ -372,19 +372,19 @@ and no targets that were built failed. A status of on if the .B \-q flag was used and -.B make +.B gmake determines that a target needs to be rebuilt. A status of two will be returned if any errors were encountered. .SH "SEE ALSO" The full documentation for -.B make +.B gmake is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the .B info and -.B make +.B gmake programs are properly installed at your site, the command .IP -.B info make +.B info 'GNU make' .PP should give you access to the complete manual. .SH BUGS