Improve description of -V. Can probably be improved further.
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.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.269 2017/06/22 13:34:13 wiz Exp $
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.\" $NetBSD: make.1,v 1.270 2017/06/22 13:42:09 dholland Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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@ -337,24 +337,39 @@ for each job started and completed.
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Rather than re-building a target as specified in the makefile, create it
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or update its modification time to make it appear up-to-date.
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.It Fl V Ar variable
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Print
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.Nm Ns 's
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idea of the value of
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.Ar variable ,
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in the global context.
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Print the value of
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.Ar variable .
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Do not build any targets.
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Multiple instances of this option may be specified;
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the variables will be printed one per line,
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with a blank line for each null or undefined variable.
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The value printed is extracted from the global context after all
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makefiles have been read.
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By default, the raw variable contents (which may
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include additional unexpanded variable references) are shown.
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If
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.Ar variable
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contains a
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.Ql \&$
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then the value will be expanded before printing.
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then the value will be recursively expanded to its complete resultant
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text before printing.
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The expanded value will also be printed if
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.Va .MAKE.EXPAND_VARIABLES
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is set to true and
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the
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.Fl dV
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option has not been used to override it.
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Note that loop-local and target-local variables, as well as values
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taken temporarily by global variables during makefile processing, are
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not accessible via this option.
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The
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.Fl dv
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debug mode can be used to see these at the cost of generating
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substantial extraneous output.
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.It Fl v Ar variable
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Like
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.Fl V
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but the variable is always expanded to its final value.
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but the variable is always expanded to its complete value.
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.It Fl W
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Treat any warnings during makefile parsing as errors.
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.It Fl w
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