Suppress echo of command invocation in makefile?

Question

I wrote a program for an assignment which is supposed to print its output to stdout. The assignment spec requires the creation of a Makefile which when invoked as make run

Answer 1

Add @ to the beginning of command to tell gmake not to print the command being executed. Like this:

run:
     @java myprogram

As Oli suggested, this is a feature of Make and not of Bash.

On the other hand, Bash will never echo commands being executed unless you tell it to do so explicitly (i.e. with -x option).