Bug 65570

Summary: documented -C option not available in make(1)
Product: Documentation Reporter: Patrick Oonk <patrick>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Patrick Oonk 2004-04-15 13:00:36 UTC 
The manual page of make(1) says:

-C directory
             Change to directory while running.

but if you use it you get:

make: illegal option -- C

Fix: 

fix either the doc or make
How-To-Repeat: make -C /some/dir
Comment 1 Hartmut Brandt freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-07-19 12:54:17 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

This works in 4.9 and above. 4.8 is frozen except for security patches 
for which this problem doesn't qualify.