Re: debugging eval,call,foreach....

[Paul D. Smith]

%% address@hidden writes:

  m> $(eval ...) and $(call ...) seem very powerful, but somewhat
  m> difficult to really debug.  Is there a way I can tell make to
  m> process my makefile expanding the $(eval ...) and $(call ...) and
  m> print out the result of this first pass expansion?

No.

  m> it would be nice have a way to produce:

  m> client: $(client_OBJS)
  m> ALL_OBJS+=$(client_OBJS)
  m> server: $(server_OBJS)
  m> ALL_OBJS+=$(server_OBJS)

It might be helpful to use the -p option to see what targets make
actually stored in its database.

I agree that some better debugging is needed, but currently there isn't
any.  I plan to look into different types of debugging output in the
future however.  Something like what you're asking for above shouldn't
be very difficult I don't think.

  m> oh, also the manual should have "OBJS" not "OBJ" in the PROGRAM_template
  m> definition.

Thx.

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