Re: GNU Make bug report: broken dry-run functionality with sub-make invocations

[Gisle Vanem]

Paul Smith wrote:

> I'm OK with adding some short text about this into the man page.  As
> David mentions it may be important enough to do that since command
> being run by make even when the user gives "-n" could give unexpected
> or even unpleasant consequences.
The most unpleasant consequences of using 'make -n' and
pressing Ctrl-C, is for me that 'make' hangs real good.
Seemingly waiting for nothing (?); a "dead-lock".
It's this 5 year old bug I believe:
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51237

Using his version:
  https://github.com/mbuilov/gnumake-windows/blob/master/gnumake-4.3.exe

as 'make -n ...' on a large complex Makefile, I've seldom seen a
complete hang. But could take some time to stop.

Just my 0.02 €.

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