* WARNING: Backward-incompatibility!
Previously using the .SILENT pseudo-target in a makefile would force all
sub-makes to be invoked with the '-s' option, effectively making all
- sub-makes silent as well. In this release, .SILENT only has effect for the
- current invocation of make. As a side-effect of this, .SILENT no longer has
- a side-effect of enabling the --no-print-directory option, which using -s
- will do.
+ sub-makes silent as well. In this release .SILENT only affects the current
+ invocation of make. A side-effect of this is that .SILENT will no longer
+ enable the --no-print-directory option, which using -s will do.
* NOTE: Deprecated behavior.
Contrary to the documentation, suffix rules with prerequisites are being