On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 12:49 +0100, Ramón García wrote: > I am interested in implementing feature request of GNU make (which I > wrote) http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18617 about enhancing debugging > capabilities, in order to make it easier to understand how makefiles > written by others work. This is a problem that I often encouter. > > The GNU project has been awarded some summer of code grants. Would you > be interested in a proposal for implementing these features?
I personally don't have the time and energy to mentor anyone in the SOC. I'm not sure what the procedure would be for a situation like this. Also, I'm somewhat skeptical that the amount of work involved here rises to the level of a SOC project; I doubt that there's more than 3-4 days of full-time work involved with these projects. All the information you need is already tracked by GNU make: filenames and line numbers are stored with every variable and target. It's really just a matter of printing them out in the right places. The only remotely difficult part is coming up with an output format everyone (er... meaning me! :)) can agree on ;-) :-) Some of the other bits, such as printing a "postprocessed" makefile, might be slightly more work, but there are already patches out there that do at least part of it. Showing variable expansion is also easy--except that the output would be enormous. Perhaps coming up with a way to selectively show variable expansion results might be a bit trickier, but if you want something like that remake is probably a better bet for you. Implementation of something like remake would be a great SOC project but... it's already done (thanks Rocky! :)) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
