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Better article from years ago, that this blogger is probably rehashing anyway: http://blog.melski.net/2010/11/30/makefile-hacks-print-the-value-of-any-variable/

• jgrahamc 12y ago
  that this blogger is probably rehashing anyway Nope. Eric (who wrote that blog you are referrring to is a friend), but I wrote this little trick up years before him: http://www.cmcrossroads.com/article/printing-value-makefile-variable http://www.cmcrossroads.com/article/printing-value-makefile-... and now I'm rehashing my own writing 10 years later.
  • emelski 12y ago
    I shouldn't be surprised that you published that before I did -- to be fair, it's quite a challenge to find _any_ topic related to make that you _haven't_ written about. :)
    • jgrahamc 12y ago
      The real question is who wrote the original line? My bet's on it being Usman.
      • emelski 12y ago
        I'll take any excuse for a little code spelunking -- according to Perforce it was Scott, in October 2002.
        • jgrahamc 12y ago
          Nice. Thanks for looking that up.
• mturmon 12y ago
  Your supposition about rehashing proved to be wrong, but the subsequent trick in the article you linked about injecting the extra line without modifying the original Makefile is an interesting twist that I had not seen.