Instead of Executing Recipes

Free Software Foundation, G. M. M. (2026). Instead of Executing Recipes. GNU Make Manual.

Type

Report

Intellectual base

Grey literature

Year

2026

Link

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Instead-of-Execution.html

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• Dry Run (Testing)
  • GNU make's `--dry-run` or `-n` uses its ordinary dependency logic to print recipes that would be needed but usually does not execute them; the manual also warns that some recipes associated with recursive make or included makefiles can still run.

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