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From: weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening)
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Subject: Re: Makefile mystery
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Date: 16 Feb 89 00:53:34 GMT
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In-reply-to: gnosys!gst@WJH12.HARVARD.EDU's message of 15 Feb 89 20:45:12 GMT

I saw the same behavior as you did with "make -n".  (With both GNU
make and the make on the system here.)  But in this case, "make -n"
doesn't report accurately what "make" will actually do.  Don't ask me
why; I'm not a make expert.