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Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 23:00:02 +1100
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: hackers@FreeBSD.org, sja@tekla.fi
Subject: Re: 2.2-GAMMA - gdb.1
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>Would it be possible to make "make" print out _why_ it wants
>to make a given file?  The above error message would tell you
>"I want to make gdb.1 because /usr/obj/contrib/gnu/gdb/.depend
>tells me to".

`make -dA' will tell you much more than you want to know.

Bruce