Re: Showing file/line number combinations when executing make

[eddy]

Quoting Edward Peschko <address@hidden>:
> I've been using make for a while now, and one thing that has always   
> bothered me is the inability to track down problems by reverse   
> engineering output.
...
> My question - how do you actually trace this back to the target that  
>  generated this statement? In this case, the ghostscript Makefile is  
>  so convoluted that it goes through levels of indirection to get to   
> this point, so grep is of limited help here.
>
> So - why can't make add (optionally, of course) a line number/file   
> name combo to each of the statements that it executes - and as an   
> additional option show the text of the makefile that is executing at  
>  the time?

See recent thread:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2010-07/msg00159.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2010-08/msg00002.html

Summary:
The feature you describe would indeed be a nice thing to add.
It's possible to simulate it at present if your make-files are nicely
written, but tiresome if you're dealing with someone else's make files
that didn't contemplate the need to do this.

        Eddy.