Version used: GNU Make 3.80
Type of machine: x86
Operating system: linux
Problem: flag -n doesn't show what make does

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In an empty dir, create the two files:
matteo$touch a b

Here's the problem:

matteo$make -n
echo a
matteo$make
echo a
a
echo b
b

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I think I should get something like:
echo a
echo b

With my system administrator, we saw that make's data base is uncomplete:

matteo$make -p|grep echo
echo a
echo b
matteo$make -p -n|grep echo
echo a

and that GNU make-3.79 doesn't have this problem.
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Last but not least, thank you very much to everybody!
Bye bye,
matteo


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