[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/1] Makefile: add variable print capabilities

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Jul 19 20:08:25 UTC 2012


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?

Thomas
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