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 5.7.4 The `--print-directory' Option
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 If you use several levels of recursive `make' invocations, the `-w' or
 `--print-directory' option can make the output a lot easier to
 understand by showing each directory as `make' starts processing it and
 as `make' finishes processing it.  For example, if `make -w' is run in
 the directory `/u/gnu/make', `make' will print a line of the form:
 
      make: Entering directory `/u/gnu/make'.
 
 before doing anything else, and a line of the form:
 
      make: Leaving directory `/u/gnu/make'.
 
 when processing is completed.
 
    Normally, you do not need to specify this option because `make' does
 it for you: `-w' is turned on automatically when you use the `-C'
 option, and in sub-`make's.  `make' will not automatically turn on `-w'
 if you also use `-s', which says to be silent, or if you use
 `--no-print-directory' to explicitly disable it.
 
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