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Re: GNU make man page typo


From: John Marshall
Subject: Re: GNU make man page typo
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 20:37:28 +0000

On 2 Sep 2021, at 06:40, Zach Petch wrote:
The second paragraph under DESCRIPTION reads,

> To prepare to use make, you must write a file called the makefile that describes the relationships among files in your program, and the states the commands for updating each file.

The same text was previously in make.texi but was updated (rather astonishingly) 30 years ago in 45fa41f:

 To prepare to use @code{make}, you must write a file called
 the @dfn{makefile} that describes the relationships among files
-in your program, and the states the commands for updating each file.
+in your program and provides commands for updating each file.

    John

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