The man page says:
-p, --print-data-base
Print the data base (rules and variable values) that
results from reading the makefiles; then execute as usual or as
otherwise specified. This also prints the version information given
by the -v switch (see below). To print the data base without trying
to remake any files, use make -p -f/dev/null.
But when I try 'make hello' with this Makefile:
hello:
@echo $@
The hello is output before the database, not after. It looks like
things don't happen in the order specified, or else some sort of
undocumented buffering is happening.
Britton
