Does anyone know how to treat the massive Makefile?

[u24c02]

Hi.

I am going to treat the massive file.
It seems look that it's having a line at least 10000 over.
So I want use this way as step by step to debugging Makefile.

Is there any proper way to debug in this case?

 

[sharath666]

Well. Keep breakpoints at several places in the flow or add some display statements..

 

[u24c02]

Thanks,
But unfortunately I am just newbie. So I need your some example about how to make break point and where should I put the display command or break point in Makefile.
So would you please let me know some example in regards to your answer?

 

[sharath666]

You can put a breakpoint(it will stop execution of the script at that point) after you have completed some major task within the makefile. You break the script at that point and check if everything is fine till that point. Once you are sure of everything till that point, you can shift the breakpoint to some other place and then check that...
e.g.
Task1: write registers
breakpoint;
Task2:Read status registers;
breakpoint;
etc....

 

[u24c02]

If you can would you please let me know exactly example?
As I know, above your recommends are not put in the Makefile.
Also Makefile does not support breakpoint.