: make --guaranteed-real-dry-run
So was this ever resolved? Did anything get into the documentation?
Thanks.
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So was this ever resolved? Did anything get into the documentation? Thanks.
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MD> "Don't actually run normal recipes; just print them."
Well OK. A hint in the air that something is up the sleeve is better
than nothing.
P.S. here on Debian sid
$ man make|egrep 19\|Manual|tr -s ' '|tac
GNU 22 August 1989 MAKE(1)
Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999 Free Software Foundation,
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Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 12:54
To: guent...@gmail.com
Cc: bug-make@gnu.org
Subject: Re: make --guaranteed-real-dry-run
PG> The GNU make manpage starts with this:
PG> WARNING
OK, but not make --help.
Anyway please change things like
-n, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon
Don
PG> The GNU make manpage starts with this:
PG> WARNING
OK, but not make --help.
Anyway please change things like
-n, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon
Don't actually run any commands; just print them.
To
Don't actually run any commands usually; just print them.
The exact wording I leav
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:15 PM, wrote:
> What really bugs me is we do "man make", and see
>
> -n, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon
>Print the commands that would be executed, but do not execute them.
>
> But that is just plain not always true, and one has to read the fine
> pri
What really bugs me is we do "man make", and see
-n, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon
Print the commands that would be executed, but do not execute them.
But that is just plain not always true, and one has to read the fine
print in other documents to find the whole story.
So t
..@gnu.org] On Behalf Of
jida...@jidanni.org
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 09:12
To: bug-make@gnu.org
Subject: make --guaranteed-real-dry-run
In the documentation everywhere you mention
-n, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon
Print the commands that would be executed, bu
In the documentation everywhere you mention
-n, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon
Print the commands that would be executed, but do not execute
them.
You should also say:
Well, that is not exactly the truth, in some cases
a even non-malicio
