Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:25:57 +0100 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt@yahoo.com.hk> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the use of @ in the Makefile? Message-ID: <405ABCA5.3090804@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <20040319085935.26511.qmail@web41903.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040319085935.26511.qmail@web41903.mail.yahoo.com>
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Patrick Dung wrote: > Hi > > What is the use of @ in those post-patch, etc, sections in the Makefile? > > It is very difficult to use search engine to find information about symbols (@) and makefile. `man 1 make', section SHELL COMMANDS: If the first or first two characters of the command line are `@' and/or `-', the command is treated specially. A `@' causes the command not to be echoed before it is executed. A `-' causes any non-zero exit status of the command line to be ignored.
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