root/rules/trace.mk

Revision 75d9236613acdcfa54deb81b12bd4546c31e7c9f, 0.7 KB (checked in by Simon Marlow <marlowsd@…>, 21 months ago)

add a simple trace facility to the build system

saying

make TRACE=1

prints most of the macro calls and their arguments. It's easy to
trace new macros; see rules/trace.mk.

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1# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2#
3# (c) 2010 The University of Glasgow
4#
5# This file is part of the GHC build system.
6#
7# To understand how the build system works and how to modify it, see
8#      http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Architecture
9#      http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Modifying
10#
11# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
12
13# A helpful little debug macro.  Call it from a macro like this:
14#
15#  $(call trace, this-macro($1,$2,$3))
16#
17# And invoke the build system with TRACE=1 to turn on tracing.
18
19define trace
20$$(if $(TRACE),$$(warning $1),)
21endef
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