From de1da442ea38b7f4627072df0cd80f3537cf8390 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9=20Lureau?= Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 17:05:08 +0100 Subject: build-sys: add a rule to print a variable MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit $ make print-CFLAGS CFLAGS=-fsanitize=address -Og -g Trick from various sources: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16467718/how-to-print-out-a-variable-in-makefile https://www.cmcrossroads.com/article/printing-value-makefile-variable Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau Reviewed-by: Eric Blake Message-Id: <20180104160523.22995-4-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- docs/devel/build-system.txt | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/devel/build-system.txt b/docs/devel/build-system.txt index 386ef36ee3..52501f2ad9 100644 --- a/docs/devel/build-system.txt +++ b/docs/devel/build-system.txt @@ -510,3 +510,16 @@ default-configs/$TARGET-NAME file as input. This is the entrypoint used when make recurses to build a single system or userspace emulator target. It is merely a symlink back to the Makefile.target in the top level. + + +Useful make targets +=================== + +- help + + Print a help message for the most common build targets. + +- print-VAR + + Print the value of the variable VAR. Useful for debugging the build + system. -- cgit v1.2.1