> I'm not sure what "documentation, not manual" refers to.
Maybe you mean the man page? Yes. ~~~ $ man man General
Commands Manual man - format and display the on-line manual pages ~~~
According to this man pages are manuals. > It's not expected that
users look at the value of MAKEFLAGS that make > itself sets (so, the
version generated in a recipe). That format, > although documented, is
technically internal to make I was refering to C. Funk's proposition to
define GNUMAKEFLAGS in .profile. That's why I said about variable and
about '~/.config/gmake.conf' preferred method. I'm not going to
use it, specially when it's in 'internal format'. That was also
my concern, if I can put it this way. > The problem for features that
impact backward compatibility is that the > very people who are most
impacted are the ones who would never try such > a branch. If you made
it this way and announced in mailing list that this and that feature was put
in the xyz branch to be tested and anyone interested or using this feature
should check it out, maybe they would try it.
