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

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <82957854-99D5-4ACF-BEE5-07B6D38CA273%verizon.net@localhost>,
Dan LaBell  <dan4l-nospam%verizon.net@localhost> wrote:
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>On Jun 5, 2015, at 7:26 PM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
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>> The question is what should -p do?
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>> christos
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>from the man page of gmake:
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>        -p, --print-data-base
>             Print  the data base (rules and variable values) that  
>results from
>             reading the makefiles; then execute as usual or as  
>otherwise spec-
>             ified.   This  also prints the version information given  
>by the -v
>             switch (see below).  To print the  data  base  without   
>trying  to
>             remake any files, use make -p -f/dev/null.
>

I think we can do something like that, but I am not sure how useful the
output would be? What do you want to use the output for?

christos