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### The ``--print-directory'` Option

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

    make: Entering directory `/u/gnu/make'.

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

    make: Leaving directory `/u/gnu/make'.

when processing is completed.

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

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