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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To: Joe Nosay <superbisquit@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Make commands...
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Joe Nosay <superbisquit@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there a flag for verbose output?

"-v" will cause make to be verbose.

If what you actually want is to have the things make calls
be verbose, then you need to configure make to tell those
other programs in whatever way is appropriate. Adding
"-Wall" to CFLAGS is a familiar example -- for gcc.