Re: -n option executes commands; bug?"

[Martin McCann]

Hi Paul, 

        Thanks for your reply, just shows how easy it is to miss the forest for 
looking at the tree's. 

Regards, 
martin 


On Monday 23 Jun 2003 8:40 pm, you wrote:
> The stuff you want is in the middle, which you elided.
>
>      The `-n', `-t', and `-q' options do not affect command lines that
>   begin with `+' characters or contain the strings `$(MAKE)' or
>   `${MAKE}'.  Note that only the line containing the `+' character or the
>   strings `$(MAKE)' or `${MAKE}' is run regardless of these options.
>   Other lines in the same rule are not run unless they too begin with `+'
>   or contain `$(MAKE)' or `${MAKE}' (*Note How the `MAKE' Variable Works:
>   MAKE Variable.)
>
> There is also information about this in various other pages that discuss
> -n.