[make][makefile] @ at the beginning of recipe line

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Recipe-Echoing

https://stackoverflow.com/a/3477400

They control the behaviour of make for the tagged command lines:

• @ suppresses the normal 'echo' of the command that is executed.
• - means ignore the exit status of the command that is executed (normally, a non-zero exit status would stop that part of the build).
• + means 'execute this command under make -n' (when commands are not normally executed).

The + notation is a generalization of the mechanism whereby a command containing ${MAKE} or $(MAKE) is executed under make -n.
(@ is discussed in §5.2 of the manual you link to; - is described in §5.5; and §5.7.1 mentions the use of +.)

[makefile] makefile:4: *** missing separator. Stop

makefile:4: *** missing separator. Stop

cat -e -t -v makefile_name

[BASH] print out a variable in makefile through make argument

[SO] How to print out a variable in makefile

print-%  : ; @echo $* = $($*)

make print-VARIABLE

[Make] Use 'make' without makefile

C++ Trick: Use Make Without Makefiles
set these in the env:

 
CXXFLAGS='-std=c++1y -stdlib=libc++'

With the src code file name like:

tmp.cpp

then just use:

make tmp
# c++ -std=c++1y -stdlib=libc++ tmp.cpp -o tmp