opt-version.mk revision 1.2 1 1.2 rillig # $NetBSD: opt-version.mk,v 1.2 2022/05/08 07:27:50 rillig Exp $
2 1.1 rillig #
3 1.2 rillig # Tests for the command line option '--version', which may be expected to
4 1.2 rillig # output the version number of make. NetBSD's make does not have a version
5 1.2 rillig # number, but the bmake distribution created from it has.
6 1.1 rillig
7 1.1 rillig # As of 2021-12-23, the output is a single empty line since the '--' does not
8 1.1 rillig # end the command line options. Command line parsing then continues as if
9 1.1 rillig # nothing had happened, and the '-version' is split into '-v ersion', which is
10 1.1 rillig # interpreted as "print the expanded variable named 'ersion'".
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12 1.1 rillig .MAKEFLAGS: --version
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