title: Making make print commands before executing when NOT using CMake
body: <p>I see that this is the same question as</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4808303/making-make-print-commands-before-executing">Making cmake print commands before executing</a></p>
  
  <p>But that answer doesn't work for me. I'm guessing that answer only works with cmake. What options work without cmake?</p>
  
  <p>Note tried these</p>
  
  <pre><code>make VERBOSE=1 target
  make target VERBOSE=1
  VERBOSE=1 make target
  make V=1 target
  make target V=1
  V=1 make target
  make -V target
  make -v target
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>none of them worked.</p>
  
  <p>make -v returns</p>
  
  <pre><code>GNU Make 3.81
  Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
  PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
  
  This program built for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
  </code></pre>