Re: Question About Gmake Internals

Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Sep 2021 22:29:02 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.devel
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9/2/21 5:38 PM, Jon Forrest wrote:
> There appear to be a number of sources of information about gmake
> itself, but I haven't found any about gmake internals. Am I missing
> anything?

I don't know of any gmake internals manuals - I guess the source code is 
supposed to be clear enough.

A variable set is just a set of 'make' variable definitions. You can 
think of it as a partial function from variable names to information 
about each variable. See variable.c for details.