Re: Confusing message when make starts in current directory

2021-12-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2021-12-15 at 17:59 +0100, Andrea Monaco wrote: > In my opinion, those messages should always come with a chdir. Well, make can't know whether the previous make started in the same directory or not, at least not reliably. If you do something like the very common, and POSIX-compatible:

Confusing message when make starts in current directory

2021-12-15 Thread Andrea Monaco
Hello! I noticed that when invoking make in the current directory, say "/home/john/foo", it often starts with the message make[1]: Entering directory '/home/john/foo' and ends with make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/john/foo' A message like that is correct and useful when make descends