[bug #59211] Add a commandline option to print the executed command with unexpanded variables

[anonymous]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59211>

                 Summary: Add a commandline option to print the executed
command with unexpanded variables
                 Project: make
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Thu 01 Oct 2020 07:43:20 AM UTC
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Enhancement
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
       Component Version: 4.3
        Operating System: Any
           Fixed Release: None
           Triage Status: None

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Details:

When building large Packages I find it hard to find out which variable
contains a not working commandline switch.

For example if gcc errors out due to a wrong commandline option, I find it
hard to figure out where that option came from.

So I wrote a patch for make to add

-x, --print-unexp-cmd
            Print commandline without expanding variables

to make's options.






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Date: Thu 01 Oct 2020 07:43:20 AM UTC  Name:
make-4.3-add-print-unexpanded-cmd-option.patch  Size: 6KiB   By: None

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=49898>

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