Re: Could --debug get an option to trace variable assignments and expansions?
Paul Smith <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Jun 2025 08:22:59 -0400
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On Fri, 2025-06-27 at 04:09 -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: > The many answers here show the appetite for finding out about > variables: > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16467718/how-to-print-out-a- > variable-in-makefile > > A variety of different approaches are represented there, but none of > them cover all situations. > > I think --debug would be the place for some general solution. > Thoughts? I don't really understand what the ask is here, exactly. Maybe you could enumerate (at least some of) "all situations"? By "situations" do you mean, locations in the makefile? The $(info ...) function is available everywhere... Another option is to use the --print-database (-p) option. Is that more what you had in mind?