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5.7.4 The ‘--print-directory
’ Option
If you use several levels of recursive make
invocations, the
‘-w
’ or ‘--print-directory
’ option can make the output a
lot easier to understand by showing each directory as make
starts processing it and as make
finishes processing it. For
example, if ‘make -w
’ is run in the directory /u/gnu/make
,
make
will print a line of the form:
make: Entering directory `/u/gnu/make'.
before doing anything else, and a line of the form:
make: Leaving directory `/u/gnu/make'.
when processing is completed.
Normally, you do not need to specify this option because ‘make
’
does it for you: ‘-w
’ is turned on automatically when you use the
‘-C
’ option, and in sub-make
s. make
will not
automatically turn on ‘-w
’ if you also use ‘-s
’, which says to
be silent, or if you use ‘--no-print-directory
’ to explicitly
disable it.