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Is there a way to have make echo commands that are manually suppressed with @ in the makefile? I can't find this in the help or man page, it just says "--quiet" to do the opposite.

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  • The most obvious idea is to change the shell that runs the commands, e.g. modify your makefile and add to the top SHELL = sh -xv.
  • Another solution is to change how you call make to make SHELL='sh -xv'
  • Lastly if your Makefile is generated by cmake then call make with make VERBOSE=1
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I found out that the nVidia SDK makefiles actually have a VERBOSE option (so make VERBOSE= works), but this is an awesome and more general solution! Thanks!
SHELL = sh -xv isn't doing anything for me. neither (SHELL="sh -xv" make) nor (export SHELL="sh -xv" && make)
@gman: You need it to include it into the make command (make SHELL='sh -xv' or into the Makefile.
-v had no effect on Dash 0.5.7 (Ubuntu 14.04), I think because it ignores -c commands, which is how Make must be running them. Works for GNU Bash though.
A side effect of this approach is that it echoes any function exports that may be in the user's .bashrc contents for each shell instantiation.
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I run into this question from time to time using cmake because it hides the command. You can use "make VERBOSE=true" to get them to print out.

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Thanks, I did find this out for the SDK.
This entirely depends on the Makeflile at hand.

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