Paul Smith wrote:
I'm OK with adding some short text about this into the man page. As David mentions it may be important enough to do that since command being run by make even when the user gives "-n" could give unexpected or even unpleasant consequences.
The most unpleasant consequences of using 'make -n' and pressing Ctrl-C, is for me that 'make' hangs real good. Seemingly waiting for nothing (?); a "dead-lock". It's this 5 year old bug I believe: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51237 Using his version: https://github.com/mbuilov/gnumake-windows/blob/master/gnumake-4.3.exe as 'make -n ...' on a large complex Makefile, I've seldom seen a complete hang. But could take some time to stop. Just my 0.02 €. -- --gv
