MAKEFILE(8)

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🎀 MAKEFILE(8) 🎀

okay so bestie, plot twist: this is not a manpage about a command, it's the actual NetBSD Makefile that builds the section‑8 manpages. It's the girl behind the girl. The main‑character energy behind every .8 file you've ever read. Periodt.

It struts in with its RCS header, like:

#       $NetBSD:  Makefile,v 1.112 2024/12/07 18:45:20 martin Exp
$ #       from: @(#)Makefile      8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93

Yes she's on version 1.112, dated 2024/12/07 18:45:20, by martin, and she traces her whole lineage back to @(#)Makefile 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93. Legacy. Iconic. 💅

✨ MAN — the pages this thing actually ships ✨

Here's the assignment exactly as she wrote it:

MAN=    MAKEDEV.8 MAKEDEV.local.8 afterboot.8 boot.8  compat_30.8
       compat_bsdos.8   compat_freebsd.8   compat_linux.8    compat_netbsd32.8       compat_sunos.8               compat_ultrix.8
        creds_msdos.8          diskless.8   hpcboot.8     intro.8
nis.8   pam.8   rc.8   rc.subr.8   rescue.8            veriexec.8
     wizd.8

(she actually line‑breaks compat_netbsd32.8 mid‑word as com‐ pat_netbsd32.8 in the raw file — that's just a wrap, bestie, the page is fine, don't panic 😭)

So MAN= is literally these 22 pages, and I'm listing every single one because we do not skip entries in this house 🫶:

  • MAKEDEV.8 💖
  • MAKEDEV.local.8 💖
  • afterboot.8 ✨
  • boot.8 ✨
  • compat_30.8 🦋
  • compat_bsdos.8 🦋
  • compat_freebsd.8 🦋
  • compat_linux.8 🦋
  • compat_netbsd32.8 🦋
  • compat_sunos.8 🦋
  • compat_ultrix.8 🦋
  • creds_msdos.8 🌸
  • diskless.8 🌸
  • hpcboot.8 🌸
  • intro.8 🌟
  • nis.8 🌈
  • pam.8 🌈
  • rc.8 👑
  • rc.subr.8 👑
  • rescue.8 🔥
  • veriexec.8 🔥
  • wizd.8 💀

Every one of these is an MLINKS+= line, and every one means "this page also answers to this other name." The alias serve, honestly. 🎀

  • MAKEDEV.8 → makedev.8
  • MAKEDEV.local.8 → makedev.local.8
  • compat_netbsd32.8 → netbsd32.8
  • nis.8 → yp.8
  • rc.8 → rc.d.8
  • rc.8 → rc.local.8
  • rc.8 → rc.shutdown.8
  • rc.8 → rc.shutdown.final.8

Look at rc.8 with four whole aliases. Main character behaviour, lowkey. 👑

🌈 SUBDIR — the per‑architecture folders 🌈

Then SUBDIR= sends the build into one folder per architecture, and yes, all 28 are invited to the party:

  • man8.acorn32
  • man8.alpha
  • man8.amiga
  • man8.atari
  • man8.cobalt
  • man8.dreamcast
  • man8.emips
  • man8.evbarm
  • man8.hp300
  • man8.hpcarm
  • man8.hpcmips
  • man8.hpcsh
  • man8.hppa
  • man8.mac68k
  • man8.macppc
  • man8.mvme68k
  • man8.next68k
  • man8.pmax
  • man8.prep
  • man8.sandpoint
  • man8.sgimips
  • man8.sparc
  • man8.sparc64
  • man8.sun2
  • man8.sun3
  • man8.vax
  • man8.x68k
  • man8.x86

🔥 the makedevs rule — where the magic happens 🔥

The comment above it says "create MAKEDEV.8 from ../../etc/MAKEDEV.tmpl", and the target is makedevs:. Verbatim, because I would never edit a queen's homework:

#   create   MAKEDEV.8   from   ../../etc/MAKEDEV.tmpl  makedevs:
        cd ${.CURDIR} && ${HOST_SH} MAKEDEV2manpage.sh

So she cds into ${.CURDIR} (&& because we're not animals) and runs MAKEDEV2manpage.sh with ${HOST_SH}. That's the whole recipe. Simple, slay, done. ✨

🫶 the sign‑off 🫶

So anyway, this page is brought to you by $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.112 2024/12/07 18:45:20 martin Exp, descended from from: @(#)Makefile 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93, and it ends with the final line MANPAGE — literally the goodbye kiss at the bottom of the file. mwah. 💋 go read some section 8 pages, bestie, you earned it 🌸🦋💖

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