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Date:      Mon, 24 Jun 1996 17:10:46 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD current users)
Subject:   Re: make fails
Message-ID:  <199606241510.RAA03109@allegro.lemis.de>
In-Reply-To: <199606241426.AAA27040@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jun 25, 96 00:26:32 am

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Bruce Evans writes:
>
>> Wouldn't it be more appropriate to print out the ld invocation line
>> too?
>
> No more than to add -v to CFLAGS.

Well, I'd think that you should either print both the cc -c invocation
and the ld invocation, or neither.  It's very confusing to just leave
some of them out.  Personally, I'm for having them both there.

> @ is often misused in makefiles, but one running current should be
> able to run make -n to see exactly what make would do.

Sure.  How long does a make -n world run for?  Does it really descend
properly into all subdirectories?  Who expects this behaviour?  The
current situation is just plain misleading.

Greg



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