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Re: make -dn still thinks it "Successfully remade" something
From: |
Paul D. Smith |
Subject: |
Re: make -dn still thinks it "Successfully remade" something |
Date: |
11 Apr 2002 21:16:38 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
%% address@hidden (Dan Jacobson) writes:
dj> $ cat makefile
dj> qq:
dj> date
dj> $ make -dn qq
dj> ..Must remake target `qq'.
dj> date
dj> Successfully remade target file `qq'.
dj> ===========
dj> Comment: no it didn't. I used -n. It still says "Successfully
dj> remade" anyway. Sure, maybe in its little mind it Successfully remade
dj> something, but not in the real world.
I'm not interested in adding to the complexity of the output code for
this very minor thing by changing what is printed based on whether the
user gave -n or not.
If this is important to you please provide a patch.
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