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Re: make -dn still thinks it "Successfully remade" something
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: make -dn still thinks it "Successfully remade" something |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:01:46 +0300 |
> From: "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
> Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
> Date: 11 Apr 2002 21:16:38 -0400
>
> dj> $ make -dn qq
> dj> ..Must remake target `qq'.
> dj> date
> dj> Successfully remade target file `qq'.
> dj> ===========
> dj> Comment: no it didn't. I used -n. It still says "Successfully
> dj> remade" anyway.
It says so because it _pretends_ `qq' was remade. -n is a feature
that is supposed to behave as if things really happened, although
they didn't.
> If this is important to you please provide a patch.
IMHO, it would be very confusing if -n would print messages whose
wording is different from when Make runs without -n. So I vote
against this feature, even if a patch is sent.