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| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/devel/build-system.txt | 13 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -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 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. |