You can use this manual at your leisure to read all about the GNU Make debugger. However, a handful of commands are enough to get started using the debugger. This chapter illustrates those commands.
| • Tracing Not | How NOT to debug your Makefile | |
| • Tracing | Using –trace or -x on a simple example | |
| • Tracing a Real Makefile | A Larger Real-World Makefile Trace. | |
| • Simple Debugging | Getting into the Debugger (–debugging) | |
| • Debugging Make Variables | Seeing Make variable expansions at various levels | |
| • Debugging Shell Commands | Debugging the shell commands that Make runs |