Re: Simple question: What does 'make [1], make[2]...make[n]' mean?

• Subject: Re: Simple question: What does 'make [1], make[2]...make[n]' mean?
• From: email@hidden (Peter Seebach)
• Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 17:32:42 -0600
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In message <email@hidden>, "Frederick C. Lee
" writes:
>Greetings:
>	I'm running a generic make via 'Makefile' of some open 
>unix-application source code.  I notice the following:
>...
>make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>Making all in developers
>...
>...
>
>Since I got idle time on my hands as I watch the 'make' do its thing, I 
>wonder what the [n] represents.

Depth of recursion.

-s
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