Re: GNU make troubleshooting

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, 2023-08-27 at 15:47 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> In fact, I'm going to define .SILENT always in the Linux man-pages,
> since V=1 is just an unnecessary duplicate for --degub=print.
> I'll make V=1 only have the effect of redirecting stderr of certain
> programs.

Just be aware that --debug=print is a new feature as of GNU Make 4.4.

You shouldn't rely on users having access to it, unless you're willing
to recommend that version (or higher).

I reminded myself that the --trace option is a shortcut for
--debug=print,why and so I will rework all this help text to just
recommend this instead.  It gives you most of the information you would
want.

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