10-BETA3

[Oliver Pinter]

On 11/5/13, Mark Felder <feld at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Nov 5, 2013, at 15:14, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently started using the 10 branch, and to my horror I found that
>> make
>> now no longer support -p switch.
>>
>> Is there any plans on providing such a switch for compatibility with
>> gmake
>> and previous make i fbsd?
>>
>
> fmake (older FreeBSD):
>      -p      Only print the input graph, not executing any commands.  The
> out-
>              put is the same as -d g1.  When combined with -f /dev/null,
> only
>              the builtin rules of make are displayed.
>
> gmake:
>        -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.
>
> Well, the new make (bmake) supports -d g1 so I guess you can see what you
> want to see using that. It would be really simple to add an option that
> makes -p work again, but I guess nobody else noticed its absence.

Yes, but bmake's -dg1 output format are different than fmake's -p.

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