Aw: Re: Aw: Re: No option -p for make?

[carsten.kunze%arcor.de@localhost]

christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) wrote:

> The question is what should -p do?

It does output the internally defined macros (like what is defined for e.g. ${CC}) and e.g. suffix rules (like what is defined for .c.o).  Of course one can redefine everything he uses, then these internally definitions don't matter but using them keeps the files short and makes it possible to use system depending settings (which makes sense for e.g. ${CFLAGS}).  Of course using tool internal information doesn't help portability but on debugging make issues it can help.

I just searched for the 4.xBSD manual pages--it looks like 4.xBSD didn't support -p neither ... That would explain and justify it ... Then sorry for the noise!

Carsten