Re: Automatic goal trace back

[John Graham-Cumming]

Bhaskar G wrote:
> a: b
>         @echo "A"
>         @touch a
>         @ls a
> c: b
>         @echo "C"
>         @touch c
>         @ls c
> b:
>         @echo "B"
>         @ls b
>
> when I run gmake a then it would return with an error code of 1.

Why?  This seems like a perfectly normal example to me.  What's the error?

> I would like gmake to print the target that was being built ie, b and it 
> was trying to satisfy the condition for a so gmake should print b and a.
>
> If I run gmake c then it should return the goals
> b and c.

Read this article that I wrote on tracing Makefile execution.  That 
should give you what you are looking for:

http://www.cmcrossroads.com/content/view/6535/120/

John.
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