RE: -n ignored

[Martin Dorey]

Ø  Using GNU Make 3.81 in macOS 10.12.

 

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2006-04/msg00000.html suggests that was released over a decade ago.  I imagine that's still what Apple's shipping but perhaps it's time for you to visit https://brew.sh/.  I doubt the behavior's changed but people are sure to be more interested in your reports if you're running, say 4.2.1, as https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/make.rb would seem to offer.

 

Perhaps your problem is something to do with https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/MAKE-Variable.html.  Hard to say when you haven't supplied an example Makefile, preferably a minimal one.

 

From: Bug-make [mailto:bug-make-bounces+address@hidden On Behalf Of Andrew Pennebaker
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 13:44
To: address@hidden
Subject: -n ignored

 

When I try to check my Makefile's with make -f <path> -n --warn-undefined-variables, then I can see in the output that make continues to execute the "all" task, even tough -n was specified.

 

Using GNU Make 3.81 in macOS 10.12.

 

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Cheers,

Andrew