On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 2:26 AM Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> wrote: > The "+" prefix added to a recipe line tells make to run that recipe > line, even if "-n" is given on the command line.
Thanks for pointing it out. > I personally don't see a good reason for adding "+" to the clean > commands in the example from the StackOverflow answer; I wouldn't want > my clean rule to run if I ran "make -n"! But, maybe if I knew more > about the larger context of that part of the makefile it would make > sense. See here [1] for the complete recipe of the above-mentioned Makefile script. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/scripts/Makefile.clean HZ
