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From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 19:44:14 +0100
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] docs/manual: document new behaviour of
 'make printvars'
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Arnout, All,

On 2019-03-12 18:55 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) spake thusly:
> Add a 'VARS=...' setting to the example. To make it clear that several
> variables can be specified, use two variables in the first example.
> Only 2 variables are printed, so the ... is removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
> Cc: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>

Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> ---
>  docs/manual/make-tips.txt | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/manual/make-tips.txt b/docs/manual/make-tips.txt
> index ea1d825bef..869b6807dd 100644
> --- a/docs/manual/make-tips.txt
> +++ b/docs/manual/make-tips.txt
> @@ -80,18 +80,18 @@ to xref:ccache[].
>  
>  .Dumping the internal make variables:
>  
> -One can dump all the variables known to make, along with their values:
> +One can dump the variables known to make, along with their values:
>  
>  ----
> - $ make -s printvars
> - VARIABLE=value_of_variable
> - ...
> + $ make -s printvars VARS='VARIABLE1 VARIABLE2'
> + VARIABLE1=value_of_variable
> + VARIABLE2=value_of_variable
>  ----
>  
>  It is possible to tweak the output using some variables:
>  
>  - +VARS+ will limit the listing to variables which names match the
> -  specified make-pattern
> +  specified make-patterns - this must be set else nothing is printed
>  - +QUOTED_VARS+, if set to +YES+, will single-quote the value
>  - +RAW_VARS+, if set to +YES+, will print the unexpanded value
>  
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 

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