> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Korn > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 9:34 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: Looking for man pages > > On 07 August 2007 14:14, Bob McConnell wrote: > > > This is not exactly a cygwin question, but can anyone point me to a > > decent man page about writing Makefiles for GNU make 3.81? > > There's a free version of the o'Reilly book available: > > http://www.wanderinghorse.net/computing/make/ > > > > I tried to > > use info, but can't make heads nor tails of the navigation > methods for > > that atrocity. > > Use the cursor keys to scroll around the page. Press Enter > to follow a > link, 'l' to go back in the history, 'u' to go up a level in > the hierarchy. > > Try using these instructions to help you read "info info"!
I tried "info make" and then '?'. The first nuisance was not being able to scroll a line at a time. Having the page jump up half a screen when I got to the bottom was jarring. But it was the 20 pages of emacs key maps that actually convinced me I was barking up the wrong tree. Life is too precious to waste like that. In my case I prefer to spend what little time I have left with my grandchildren. Thank you for that link. While it was difficult to figure out what version of Make it references (3.81 is buried in a comment at the very bottom of the change history), they did include a copy of the book in ISO 26300 (.odt) format. That will be very useful. Bob McConnell -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
