Speaking of debugging, I found this handy: print-%: ; @echo '$(subst ','\'',$*=$($*))' include Makefile Save somewhere, eg as ~/Makefile.debug, then when

Speaking of debugging, I found this handy: print-%: ; @echo '$(subst ','\'',$*=$($*))' include Makefile Save somewhere, eg as ~/Makefile.debug, then when you want to know the evaluated value of some variable or task in some Makefile, you prefix it with print- ­— for example, LOCALES: make -f ~/Makefile.debug print-LOCALES It'll print the evaluated LOCALES of the Makefile in the directory you run this in.