make(1)

[Vernon Schryver]

Am I the only person in the world who thinks that make(1) should be compiled
so that '-d' works?  Does no one else have enough memory or commit obscure
errors that would be illuminated by `make -nd`?  `Make -p` just is not enough
for my mistakes.

I guessed history was a good enough reason make(1) was built small in Microport
3.0e.  Finding the same restriction in ISC 2.0.2 has made me wonder if someone
at AT&T is asleep at the helm.  (Presumably, ISC just uses cmd/make/make.mk
as it comes from New Jersey.)


Vernon Schryver
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