> Bill Traynor wrote: >>>> Do you wanna set some breakpoints and inspect variables in makefiles? >>>> Have a look at a simple makefile debugger (written in make): >> http://www.embedded.com/columns/technicalinsights/197003517?printable=true > > The article above shows some macros you can add to your Makefile to show > you the values of certain things. It is helpful, but not an interactive > debugger. > > However, the guy who wrote that article did indeed write a full > Makefile debugger. I took it for a spin, and found that it worked as > advertised on a simple Makefile. I tried it on the kernel Makefile, but > without success (but I didn't try very hard). > > YMMV. I put some of the resources and info I found at: > http://elinux.org/Debugging_Makefiles > > The link from the package's README doesn't work, but here's a link > I found to an article about the debugger: > http://www.cmcrossroads.com/content/view/6479/120/ The links in the README worked fine for me. FWIW, the authors homepage is here: http://gmd.sf.net He's written a self-published book on GNU Make, it would seem. > > -- Tim > > ============================= > Tim Bird > Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum > Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America > ============================= > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" > in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
