Twas brillig at 14:16:52 21.11.2009 UTC+01 when cworth@cworth.org did gyre and gimble:

 CW> Meanwhile, the feature I've always wanted with systems like this is
 CW> to document to the user that there's the possibility of adding a
 CW> "V=1" to the command line to get the full output.

I have had another idea in mind which might be useful: a "header" for
silent make mode which explains what commands are run exactly, including
placeholders like $@ $^, so it is not necessary to run with make V=1 to
figure out what's going on.

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