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makefileanalyzer
Gulbahar
Gulbahar

Reputation: 5537

Makefile analyzer/simulator?

I'm no Makefile expert, and I was wondering if someone knew of some kind of analyzer or simulator that would start from the top-most Makefile all the way down to the inner-most Makefile, each time showing me the value of each variable and the order in which it goes through rules.

Thank you.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2473

Answers (1)

High Performance Mark
High Performance Mark

Reputation: 78306

Most implementations of make offer the -d flag which will cause the program to print out everything it is doing, in great detail. The -n flag will cause make to do a dry-run, ie report what it would do but not actually do it.

Be warned, make produces a lot of output so you probably want to redirect it to a file for your later perusal.

Upvotes: 1

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