Re: make -dn still thinks it "Successfully remade" something

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.