Re: make -d C no-op?

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Le Sat, May 13, 2023 at 07:00:08PM +0700, Robert Elz a écrit :
> And I just realised that was not what you were asking about.   And
> yes, it also looks to me as if -dC is a no-op, but that's not unusual
> for debug flags - a useful looking set tends to get defined, to reserve
> the name ('C' in this case) and then only used if needed for debugging
> something.    The shell (/bin/sh) (if compiled with debug in it at all,
> which it usually isn't) has similar - debug options defined, which can
> be set, but which do nothing, as that particular part has never needed
> debugging.

So:

--- make.1	2023-05-13 17:46:12.158640552 +0200
+++ make.1.new	2023-05-13 17:49:26.697338459 +0200
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@
 Print debugging information about archive searching and caching.
 .It Cm C
 Print debugging information about the current working directory.
+(The flag is accepted but currently this is unimplemented.)
 .It Cm c
 Print debugging information about conditional evaluation.
 .It Cm d
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