z/OS V1R9.0 UNIX System Services Command ... - Christian Grothoff

make
Options
–c dir Attempts to change into the specified directory when make starts up. If
make cannot change to the directory, an error message is printed. This is
useful for recursive makefiles when building in a different directory.
–D macro definition
Define macro on the command line before reading any makefile. Use the
same form as a normal macro definition (macro=string). If you use this
option, make assigns the value to the macro before reading the makefile;
any definition of the same macro contained in the makefile supersedes this
definition.
Note: make uses any macros defined in this way before reading any
makefile, including the startup file. This allows you to define a startup
file by providing a value for MAKESTARTUP on the command line:
make –D MAKESTARTUP=$HOME/project/startup.mk
–E Suppresses reading of the environment. If you do not specify either –E or
–e, make reads the environment before reading the makefile.
–e Reads the environment after reading the makefile. If neither –E nor –e are
specified, make reads the environment before reading the makefile, except
for the SHELL environment variable, which you must explicitly export. This
option does not affect the value of MAKEFLAGS.
–f file Uses file as the source for the makefile description. make ignores the
makefiles specified as prerequisites to the .MAKEFILES target. If you specify
a minus sign (−) in place of file, make reads the standard input. (In other
words, make expects you to enter the makefile from the terminal or to
redirect it from a file.) You can use more than one –f option.
–i Tells make to ignore all errors and continue making other targets. This is
equivalent to the .IGNORE attribute or macro.
–k Makes all independent targets, even if an error occurs. Ordinarily, make
stops after a command returns a nonzero status. Specifying –k tells make
to ignore the error and continue to make other targets, as long as they are
not related to the target that received the error. make does not attempt to
update anything that depends on the target that was being made when the
error occurred.
–n Displays the commands that make would execute to update the chosen
targets, but does not actually execute any recipe lines unless they have a
plus sign (+) command prefix. make displays recipe lines with an at sign
(@) command prefix on standard output (stdout). For more information
about recipe lines, see z/OS UNIX System Services Programming Tools.
392 z/OS V1R9.0 UNIX System Services Command Reference
With group recipes, make displays the commands it uses to update a given
target, but it also executes the commands.
Note: z/OS make supports group recipes, but traditional implementations
of make do not. A group recipe signifies a collection of command
lines fed as a unit to the command interpreter. By contrast, make
executes commands in a normal recipe one by one. For more
information about group recipes, see z/OS UNIX System Services
Programming Tools.
If make finds the string $ (MAKE) in a recipe line, it expands it, adds –n to
the MAKEFLAGS, and then executes the recipe line. This enables you to see