ignoring at (@) symbol in makefiles

Question

In makefiles, a line prefixed with an at symbols disables the print of the output. I have a makefile where every line is prefixed with an at, but for debug I need to see wha

Answer 1

To make things even more configurable, allow a make switch to enable verbosity. It default normal to silent mode. Only with the -e VERBOSE=1 mode it will be verbose of course:

##
# Verbose ENABLE/DISABLE
# invoke make -e VERBOSE=1
##
V=@
ifeq ($(VERBOSE),1)
    V=
endif   

all:
    $(V)echo test
    echo test

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