Taking make out of the execution process

[thutt]

Ewan Delanoy writes:
 >    Given a target in a makefile, I would like to construct
 >    (programmatically) a sequence of non-make commands whose effect
 >    is exactly equivalent to calling make on the target.
 > 
 >    When there are no recursive calls in the makefile, the -n option does
 >    exactly this. It fails however when there are recursive calls.

 Is there a request that you have?

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