Re: Possible bug with Makefile macros spanning many lines on old Mac OS X versions

Paul Smith <[email protected]> Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:52:23 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.bugs
Organization GNU's Not UNIX!
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2026-02-09 at 23:33 +0100, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> One question on the topic: it's 'gmake -p' not 'gmake -dp'?

The -p option is in addition to any other options.  But, in theory that
output shouldn't change as long as the makefiles don't change.  That
option dumps the results of make's internal databases it constructs
after it reads the makefiles.

So you don't have to actually run the build.  In theory something like
"make -pn" (which doesn't actually build anything) would work too.