From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 18:38:35 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Formerly make.man.~4~
X-Git-Tag: 3.70.2~362
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7c675f86e6a3f98664f91accb194a324e449f7e2;p=thirdparty%2Fmake.git

Formerly make.man.~4~
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diff --git a/make.1 b/make.1
index fa9db808..2945bbe4 100644
--- a/make.1
+++ b/make.1
@@ -127,6 +127,10 @@ is equivalent to
 .BR "\-C " /etc.
 This is typically used with recursive invocations of
 .IR make .
+.B \-e
+Give variables taken from the environment precedence
+over variables from makefiles.
+.TP 0.5i
 .TP 0.5i
 .B \-d
 Print debugging information in addition to normal processing.
@@ -139,7 +143,8 @@ decides what to do.
 .TP 0.5i
 .BI "\-f " file
 Use
-.I file as a makefile.
+.I file
+as a makefile.
 .TP 0.5i
 .B \-i
 Ignore all errors in commands executed to remake files.