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H.1.8 Debugging Make Rules

The rules and dependency trees generated by automake can get rather complex, and leave the developer head-scratching when things don’t work as expected. Besides the debug options provided by the make command (see Options Summary in The GNU Make Manual), here’s a couple of further hints for debugging makefiles generated by automake effectively:

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Automake’s ‘dist’ and ‘distcheck’ rules had a bug in this regard in that they created directories even with -n, but this has been fixed in Automake 1.11.

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