From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com> $ 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 <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20180104160523.22995-4-marcandre.lur...@redhat.com> Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4...@amsat.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4...@amsat.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> --- Makefile | 5 ++++- docs/devel/build-system.txt | 13 +++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 1671db3..f26ef1b 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -8,9 +8,12 @@ SRC_PATH=. UNCHECKED_GOALS := %clean TAGS cscope ctags dist \ html info pdf txt \ - help check-help \ + help check-help print-% \ docker docker-% vm-test vm-build-% +print-%: + @echo '$*=$($*)' + # All following code might depend on configuration variables ifneq ($(wildcard config-host.mak),) # Put the all: rule here so that config-host.mak can contain dependencies. diff --git a/docs/devel/build-system.txt b/docs/devel/build-system.txt index 386ef36..52501f2 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. -- 1.8.3.1
