Hi Karl, thanks for the report.
* Karl Berry wrote on Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:54:16AM CEST: > I have found myself needing to go through the complicated shell > sequence for the $(RECURSIVE_TARGETS) rule more than once when debugging > the Makefile.am's in a big directory tree (namely TeX Live). Typically > I get a mysterious "*** failed", exit status 1, and there's no easy way > to know which command failed. > > I'd like to suggest that that initial silencing "@" become a variable, > say RECURSIVE_TARGET_VERBOSE. Of course the default would still be @, > but then it could easily be overridden with, say, "set -vx;", to at least help > narrow down the point of failure. Try `make SHELL="/bin/bash -vx"', that should help for all rules that use `@', not just the recursive ones. I'd hate to add special hacks to debug only some rules, should this not be sufficient for your purposes. Cheers, Ralf
