[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/1] Makefile: add variable print capabilities
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sun May 26 19:40:14 UTC 2013
Emeric, All,
On 2012-07-19 22:08 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> Le Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:01:17 -0400,
> Emeric Vigier <emeric.vigier at savoirfairelinux.com> a écrit :
>
> > I just got started with buildroot yesterday, and like it :-).
> > I am no Makefile expert, then often I turn into wanting to check Makefile variables.
> > This patch adds a capability to do so by issuing:
> >
> > $ make print-<myvariable>
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> > $ make print-DL_DIR
> > DL_DIR = /home/evigier/buildroot/dl
>
> Hum, is this really useful? What are the use cases? What do other
> thinks about this?
I like the overall idea, but only for printing all variables.
It's then possible to grep the result to find the one variable one is
interested in.
I've taken that patch in my tree (dropped the per-variable print, and
adapted the printvars a bit), and will send a pull request to Peter
later tonight.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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