MAKEG(1)

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💅 MAKEG(1) — like, the general commands manual, but make it debug ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to makeg — short for make + g, and yes it's giving exactly what you think it's giving 🎀 (this one lives in the General Commands Manual, iykyk)

🦋 NAME

makeg — make a debuggable executable 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS

makeg [ make-options ...  ] [ targets ...  ]

🌸 DESCRIPTION

So here's the tea ☕: the makeg script just runs make, but it sneaks in some variable settings so you get a debuggable target — but only when you're using it with a Makefile that was generated by imake. Match made in heaven fr fr 💫

Like, for example? It arranges for the C compiler to be called with the -g option. That's it. That's the whole vibe. Debug symbols slay 💅

🫶 ENVIRONMENT

  • MAKE — the make program to use. Default is ``make''. literally just the make program bestie, nothing mysterious 🌈
  • GDB — set this to a non-null value if you're using the gdb debugger on Solaris 2 👀 because Solaris 2 is high-maintenance and requires additional debugging options to be passed to the compiler. no cap 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO

make(1), imake(1) — go read those too, they're iconic 👑

and that's the whole page, periodt 🧚 from the imake 1.0.11 era, dated 1996-02-02 — vintage, but she still ate 💜

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