On 4/2/23 14:20, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Yesterday I found another use of make's -t flag: It helps make sure > that the logic in the Makefile is correct. You could run the target > without -t, but then you risk seeing warnings and errors from the > commands run by the target before make's own ones, which would hide > Makefile problems. > > If you run `make -kstj [target(s)]` after modifying a Makefile, it > will show only and all^Wmost problems in the Makefile itself. It > could be especially useful with 4.4's --shuffle, although I don't > have it yet in Debian Sid :(. I should build from source and try it. > > I'll start using that as a rule to check changes to Makefiles, and > hopefully will avoid introducing bugs that I need to fix in the next > commit :) > > <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?id=5bf82f50cf02ded2403666d6c1ee2878b8bd602e> Running this a few times works like a charm: $ make -kstj --shuffle >/dev/null; make clean >/dev/null Very recommended :) > > Cheers, > Alex > > -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5
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