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Make Info page needs a break


From: Dan Jacobson
Subject: Make Info page needs a break
Date: 12 Apr 2002 00:25:53 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1

I am reading the Make Info page, and there is a 50/50 chance that I
will think when it mentions -n and -t here, it is somehow still talking about
-Wn, -Wt.  I think something like a HTML <HR> is called for to wake
the user up that we have entered the discussion part of the document.  

I am not a computer.  Perhaps there are subtle indentation clues, but
I need something louder to wake me up that I'm not still reading the
story of -W.

`-W FILE'
`--what-if=FILE'
`--assume-new=FILE'
`--new-file=FILE'
     "What if".  Each `-W' flag is followed by a file name.  The given
     files' modification times are recorded by `make' as being the
     present time, although the actual modification times remain the
     same.  You can use the `-W' flag in conjunction with the `-n' flag
     to see what would happen if you were to modify specific files.

   With the `-n' flag, `make' prints the commands that it would
normally execute but does not execute them.

   With the `-t' flag, `make' ignores the commands in the rules and
uses (in effect) the command `touch' for each target that needs to
be...
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