Controlling verbosity of make

Question

I\'m using a makefile to compile a program made of many .c files, and any time make is invoked it only compiles those files modified after the last run

Answer 1

Instead of using "@gcc" to compile, you can omit that "@" and pass the "-s" option to your make command instead. (Leave "@echo" as it is.) Then "make -s" would be your brief make command, and "make" would be verbose.

The ‘-s’ or ‘--silent’ flag to make prevents all echoing, as if all recipes started with ‘@’.

From the GNU Make manual pages

(The other answers better answer your question, but this approach deserves a mention.)