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From: Patrick Oonk <patrick@pine.nl>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: documented -C option not available in make(1)
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>Number:         65570
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       documented -C option not available in make(1)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 15 05:00:36 PDT 2004
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jul 19 11:55:15 GMT 2004
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jul 19 11:55:15 GMT 2004
>Originator:     Patrick Oonk
>Release:        4.8
>Organization:
Pine Digital Security
>Environment:
FreeBSD xxxxxxxxxxx 4.8-RELEASE-p17 FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p17 #9: Thu Apr  1 15:31:55 CEST 2004     root@xxxxxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/xxxxx  i386
>Description:
The manual page of make(1) says:

-C directory
             Change to directory while running.

but if you use it you get:

make: illegal option -- C

>How-To-Repeat:
make -C /some/dir 
>Fix:
fix either the doc or make
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: harti 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jul 19 11:54:17 GMT 2004 
State-Changed-Why:  
This works in 4.9 and above. 4.8 is frozen except for security patches 
for which this problem doesn't qualify. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=65570 
>Unformatted:
