3 Getting in and out and new GNU Remake Command Options

This chapter discusses how to start the GNU Make debugger, and how to get out of it.

There are a couple ways you could get into the debugger

• invoke from the outset, using option -X or --debugger.
• enter when there is a fatal error using option --debugger=error, debugger=fatal, or --post-mortem
• through an explicit call inside the debugger using built-in function debugger

Once inside the debugger, and type quit or C-d inside the debugger to exit.

You don’t have to use the command-line interface. At present there is a front-end available via GNU Emacs which can be entered via the Emacs command M-x remake after loading dbgr. See Using the GNU Make debugger from GNU Emacs.