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The
--print-directoryoption
If you
use several levels of recursive make
invocations, the -w
or --print-directory
options, can make the output a lot easier to understand by showing
each directory as make
starts processing it and as make
finishes processing it. For example, if make
-w is run in
the directory /u/gnu/make,
make
will print a line like the following before doing anything else.
make: Entering directory
'/u/gnu/make'
Then, a line of the following
form when processing is completed.
make: Leaving directory '/u/gnu/make'
Normally, you do not need
to specify this option because make
does it for you: -w
is turned on automatically when you use the -C
option, and in sub-makes.
make
will not automatically turn on -w
if you also use -s,
which says to be silent, or if you use --no-print-directory
to explicitly disable it.
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