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<h4 class="subsection">The <code>--print-directory</code> Option</h4>

   <p>If you use several levels of recursive <code>make</code> invocations, the
<code>-w</code> or <code>--print-directory</code> option can make the output a
lot easier to understand by showing each directory as <code>make</code>
starts processing it and as <code>make</code> finishes processing it.  For
example, if <code>make -w</code> is run in the directory <code>/u/gnu/make</code>,
<code>make</code> will print a line of the form:

<pre class="example">     make: Entering directory `/u/gnu/make'.
     </pre>

<p>before doing anything else, and a line of the form:

<pre class="example">     make: Leaving directory `/u/gnu/make'.
     </pre>

<p>when processing is completed.

   <p>Normally, you do not need to specify this option because <code>make</code>
does it for you: <code>-w</code> is turned on automatically when you use the
<code>-C</code> option, and in sub-<code>make</code>s.  <code>make</code> will not
automatically turn on <code>-w</code> if you also use <code>-s</code>, which says to
be silent, or if you use <code>--no-print-directory</code> to explicitly
disable it.

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