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Re: Dump the database to a makefile and invoke make on the dumped makefi


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: Dump the database to a makefile and invoke make on the dumped makefile.
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:51:42 -0500

On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 18:46 +0000, Tim Murphy wrote:
> The option you need is:
> -p, --print-data-base       Print make's internal database.

This is the (only) place to start but just to warn you: the output of
this option was not designed to be used this way and we don't guarantee
that the format etc. will not change in future versions of make.  This
output is intended for human consumption and debugging, not specifically
for further automated processing.

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