[Module-build-general] Re: build -n?

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Sunday, November 24, 2002, at 05:29  PM, Uri Guttman wrote:

>
> ken,
>
> is there a way to get build to behave like make -n? i would like to see
> what would get executed by build without running those commands.

Thing is, most of what's done isn't done with "commands".  It's usually 
just perl code to carry out the task.  Only things like compiling C code 
typically require external commands to be performed.

That means there's no unified way to see what the command would have 
been.

For 'install', you can use the 'fakeinstall' action instead, to see what 
would have happened.

> i have been rtfming and can't find anything like that. i see verbose=1
> but it seems to only affect the test code. i don't see any way to affect
> build itself other than the key=value stuff which seems to be mostly
> target specific. but i don't know it well enough to know for sure about
> that.

It's true, most of it is target-specific.

  -Ken