Re: gmake -C mess up MAKEFLAGS?

[Harvey Chapman]

On Oct 31, 2009, at 9:10 AM, RobinK wrote:

> This is the result:
> gmake: Entering directory `/tmp/aa'
> Inside aa w
> gmake: Leaving directory `/tmp/aa'
>
> Where's that "w" after "Inside aa" came from? Why is it in $ 
> (MAKEFLAGS)?
> If I just do:
> > cd /tmp/aa
> > gmake
> Then everything is fine, there's no "w" at the end

I think -C enables -w which prints the "gmake: Entering directory `/ 
tmp/aa'" messages.

‘-w’ ‘--print-directory’
Print a message containing the working directory both before and after  
execut- ing the makefile. This may be useful for tracking down errors  
from complicated nests of recursive make commands. See Section 5.7  
[Recursive Use of make], page 50. (In practice, you rarely need to  
specify this option since ‘make’ does it for you; see Section 5.7.4  
[The ‘--print-directory’ Option], page 54.)