Gentlemen, make --dry-run is booby trapped to still execute commands: $ (cd Documentation; make --dry-run); find -mtime -1 -type f ./Documentation/doc.dep ./GIT-VERSION-FILE Forgot $(MAKEFLAGS)? (info "(make)Options/Recursion"). By the way, why would an offline make need /bin/sh: curl-config: command not found -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html