Re: GNU make troubleshooting

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Paul,

On 2023-08-27 15:52, Paul Smith wrote:
> 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.

Hmm.

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

Well, I'm the only one developing that Makefile.  I don't expect others
to need it often, as long as I don't break it too badly.  And since I
already require some latest versions of software for development,
requiring make-4.4 is not too much of a stretch.  I can live with it.

This reminded me that Debian still has make-4.3.  I've added the
maintainer to the thread, in case they hadn't noticed that there was a
new version.

Cheers,
Alex

> 
> 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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