Package: make
Version: 3.81-7
Severity: wishlist
X-debbugs-cc: bug-make@gnu.org
Me again. Same problem as before with the documentation.
`-n'
`--just-print'
`--dry-run'
`--recon'
"No-op". The activity is to print what commands would be used to
make the targets up to date, but not actually execute them.
$ make -n a
mkdir -p /tmp/pots
make -n guts > /tmp/pots/`date +%s`
/bin/sh: /tmp/pots/1261073715: No such file or directory
make: *** [a] Error 1
This proves that some things really do get executed...
Which to me is just as dangerous as a Microsoft executable email to a
Windows user... I will shoot my own foot executing things I wrote but
didn't intend to execute, thinking make -n was as safe as sh -n.
$ cat Makefile
guts:
export LC_ALL=zh_TW.UTF-8 &&\
./mec|xargs --verbose --no-run-if-empty w3m -no-cookie -cols 111 -dump
a:
mkdir -p /tmp/pots
$(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) guts > /tmp/pots/`date +%s`
ls -og /tmp/pots
Hope the documentation gets fixed on Debian at least.
$ stat /usr/share/doc/make/changelog.gz|grep Mod
Modify: 2006-04-11 06:03:46.000000000 +0800
Seems Debian is stuck with four year old make.
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