4.4.1 Breakpoints

A breakpoint arranges for GNU Remake to stop when it reaches a Makefile target.

You can set breakpoints with the break command and its variants (see Setting breakpoints), to specify the place where your script should stop by target name.

The debugger assigns a number to each breakpoint when you create it; these numbers are successive integers starting with 1. In many of the commands for controlling various features of breakpoints you use this number.