What is the use of @ in the Makefile?

[Oliver Eikemeier]

Patrick Dung wrote:

> Hi
> 
> What is the use of @ in those post-patch, etc, sections in the Makefile? 
> 
> It is very difficult to use search engine to find information about symbols (@) and makefile.

`man 1 make', section SHELL COMMANDS:

If the first or first two characters of the command line are `@' and/or
`-', the command is treated specially.  A `@' causes the command not to
be echoed before it is executed.  A `-' causes any non-zero exit status
of the command line to be ignored.