Question

I’m working on a project. The makefile is very complex as it includes multiple other makefiles which also include other more makefiles. I would like to dump all included makefiles into a single file. How can I do that? Is there anything similar to the C preprocess dump such as ‘-E’?

Answer 1

make -p     # GNU Make
nmake -p    # Microsoft Make
make -h     # help
make -d     # debug
make -n     # just print

Start with a simple example and work from there. Starting on a big Makefile when you don’t know anything about Make is not a good idea.

• http://www.working-software.com/node/19
• http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~duckwos/make/