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Re: GNU make man page typo


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: GNU make man page typo
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2021 23:18:32 -0400
User-agent: Evolution 3.36.5-0ubuntu1

On Thu, 2021-09-02 at 20:37 +0000, John Marshall wrote:
> 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.

I've applied this change to the man page, thanks!




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