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Enhanced GNU Make - tracing, error reporting, debugging, profiling and more

Language: C

Knit: Making a Better Make | Apr 2023
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Might be worth a look at remake, it can help a ton when debugging complex Make setups: https://github.com/rocky/remake
Proposal to add build graph output to GNU Make | Jan 2022
See also: https://github.com/rocky/remake

ISTR there was a thread about it here a few months ago.

An opinionated approach to GNU Make | Dec 2019
FYI, there's a patched Make providing (among other things) an interactive debugger:

https://github.com/rocky/remake

One line you should add to every makefile | Apr 2015
There is a remake[1] project, allowing you to debug Makefile like a usual script language.

[1] https://github.com/rocky/remake

“The GNU Make Book”: probably more than you ever wanted to know about make | Apr 2015
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https://github.com/rocky/remake the sources there claim to be from version 4.1
Why Use Make? (2013) | Mar 2014
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See also remake. It's a bit simpler, I think.

https://github.com/rocky/remake