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Subject: Re: Is there a 'loud' switch for make?
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 16:17:45 +0930 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199608280648.IAA16220@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Aug 28, 96 08:48:36 am
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Christoph Kukulies stands accused of saying:
> 
> > 
> > ... just trying to debug a port and being very annoyed that I can't see
> > what's actually being done.  Is there an opposite to the '-s' option
> > to make(1) to make it loud?  And is this inherited?  
> 
> -dA gives maximum verbosity. For having it inherited you may use the
> variable MAKEFLAGS. OTOH I think that recursive makes inherit it
> anyway - not sure though.

There's loud and then there's -dA 8)  I was looking for something that
would tell me what commands it was executing as it went along, not drown me
in debugging output 8) 

> --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de

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