RE: make --guaranteed-real-dry-run

2009-01-23 Thread Martin Dorey
: make --guaranteed-real-dry-run So was this ever resolved? Did anything get into the documentation? Thanks. ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make

Re: make --guaranteed-real-dry-run

2009-01-23 Thread jidanni
So was this ever resolved? Did anything get into the documentation? Thanks. ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make

Re: make --guaranteed-real-dry-run

2009-01-01 Thread jidanni
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,

RE: make --guaranteed-real-dry-run

2009-01-01 Thread Martin Dorey
g 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

Re: make --guaranteed-real-dry-run

2009-01-01 Thread jidanni
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

Re: make --guaranteed-real-dry-run

2009-01-01 Thread Philip Guenther
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

Re: make --guaranteed-real-dry-run

2009-01-01 Thread jidanni
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

RE: make --guaranteed-real-dry-run

2009-01-01 Thread Martin Dorey
It's not clear whether you're complaining about rules whose commands are run even with -n or -t, or whether you're complaining about commands run by eg $(shell). Assuming the former, the documentation already explains: The `-n', `-t', and `-q' options do not affect command lines that begin with