Package: remake (4.3+dbg-1.6+dfsg-1)

GNU make fork with improved error reporting and debugging

Modernized version of GNU make utility that adds improved error reporting, the ability to trace execution in a comprehensible way, and a debugger. Some of the features of the debugger are:

 * see the target call stack
 * set breakpoints on targets
 * show and set variables
 * execute arbitrary "make" code
 * issue shell commands while stopped in the middle of execution
 * inspect target descriptions
 * write a file with the commands of the target expanded

Tags: Software Development: Debugging, C Development, Libraries, Implemented in: implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, User Interface: Text-based Interactive, Role: role::devel-lib, role::program, Scope: Utility, Works with: Running Programs

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