[bug #58013] .SILENT appears to be ignored in GNU Make 4.3

[anonymous]

URL:
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                 Summary: .SILENT appears to be ignored in GNU Make 4.3
                 Project: make
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Fri 20 Mar 2020 08:06:48 AM UTC
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Bug
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
       Component Version: 4.3
        Operating System: POSIX-Based
           Fixed Release: None
           Triage Status: None

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Details:

Hello,

I noticed that after upgrading GNU Make to 4.3 messages such as these:

make[1]: Entering directory '/.../test/a'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/.../test/a'

started to appear when building my project. The Makefile is a complex one
which is generated by CMake. CMake tries to suppress such output by default,
by inserting ".SILENT:" in the generated Makefile. Starting with GNU Make 4.3
this directive appears to be ignored, as illustrated with this toy project:

$ find . | sort
.   (directory)
./a (directory)
./a/Makefile
./Makefile

$ cat Makefile
.SILENT:
all: a
.PHONY: a
a: %:
        $(MAKE) -C $@

$ cat a/Makefile
all: a
.PHONY: a
a:
        echo hello





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