I'm trying to debug a problem in my gcc Makefile that came from the ChatScript open source chat-bot project:
http://chatscript.sourceforge.net/
Here are my relevant version numbers:
Ubuntu 14.04
make version 3.81
gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
I can't seem to get it to find a source file in another directory that is along-side the current working directory. If I move the source file into the current directory, it works fine, but if I put the file back in the old directory, it complains it can't find it:
make: *** No rule to make target `privatesrc.cpp', needed by `all'. Stop.
The current directory I am in when executing make is SRC, the directory where Makefile is located. privatesrc.cpp resides in a sibling directory that should be reachable from SRC with this relative path:
../privatecode/privatesrc.cpp
To debug this problem I want to see exactly what the files are for each of the make target's variables. I used these two SO posts to try and dump those values:
How to print out a variable in makefile
Jim Nisby's answer. And:
gnu make: list the values of all variables (or "macros") in a particular run
The accepted answer.
I created this new make target called server_dry_run to facilitate this:
server_dry_run: DEFINES+= -DPRIVATE_CODE -DLOCKUSERFILE=1 -DEVSERVER=1 -DEVSERVER_FORK=1 -DDISCARDDATABASE=1
server_dry_run: PGLOAD= -pthread
server_dry_run: INCLUDEDIRS=-Ievserver
server_dry_run: all
server_dry_run: EXECUTABLE=../BINARIES/ChatScript
server_dry_run: CFLAGS=-c -Wall -funsigned-char -Wno-write-strings -Wno-char-subscripts -Wno-strict-aliasing
# Uncomment this line if you want to filter out variables already defined.
# VARS_OLD := $(.VARIABLES)
CUR-DIR := $(shell pwd)
LOG-DIR := $(CUR-DIR)/make-logs
$(info INCLUDEDIRS="$(INCLUDEDIRS)")
$(foreach v,$(filter-out $(VARS_OLD) VARS_OLD,$(.VARIABLES)),$(info $(v) = $($(v))))
However, INCLUDEDIRS always shows as empty:
INCLUDEDIRS=""
How can I see the value of INCLUDEDIRS so I can fix this problem?
Below is the entire content of my Makefile. Note, I did try removing the quotes I added around the value assigned to INCLUDEDIRS, but that didn't help. One other bit of data. If I do "make clean" I get the error "rm: cannot remove `../': Is a directory", which seems to indicate the EXECUTABLE target variable may not be right.
MAKEFILE:
debugserver: DEFINES+= -DPRIVATE_CODE -DLOCKUSERFILE=1 -DEVSERVER=1 -DEVSERVER_FORK=1 -DDISCARDDATABASE=1 -DDEBUG
debugserver: PGLOAD= -pthread
debugserver: INCLUDEDIRS="-Ievserver -I../privatecode"
debugserver: all
debugserver: EXECUTABLE=../BINARIES/ChatScriptDebug
debugserver: CFLAGS=-c -Wall -funsigned-char -Wno-write-strings -Wno-char-subscripts -Wno-strict-aliasing -g
debugpgserver: DEFINES+= -DPRIVATE_CODE -DLOCKUSERFILE=1 -DEVSERVER=1 -DEVSERVER_FORK=1 -DDEBUG
debugpgserver: PGLOAD= -lpq -pthread
debugpgserver: INCLUDEDIRS="-Ievserver -I../privatecode"
debugpgserver: all
debugpgserver: EXECUTABLE=../BINARIES/ChatScriptpgDebug
debugpgserver: CFLAGS=-c -Wall -funsigned-char -Wno-write-strings -Wno-char-subscripts -Wno-strict-aliasing -g
server: DEFINES+= -DPRIVATE_CODE -DLOCKUSERFILE=1 -DEVSERVER=1 -DEVSERVER_FORK=1 -DDISCARDDATABASE=1
server: PGLOAD= -pthread
server: INCLUDEDIRS="-Ievserver -I../privatecode"
server: all
server: EXECUTABLE=../BINARIES/ChatScript
server: CFLAGS=-c -Wall -funsigned-char -Wno-write-strings -Wno-char-subscripts -Wno-strict-aliasing
standalone: DEFINES+= -DPRIVATE_CODE -DDISCARDSERVER=1 -DDISCARDDATABASE=1
standalone: PGLOAD= -pthread
standalone: INCLUDEDIRS="-Ievserver -I../privatecode"
standalone: all
standalone: EXECUTABLE=../BINARIES/ChatScript
standalone: CFLAGS=-c -Wall -funsigned-char -Wno-write-strings -Wno-char-subscripts -Wno-strict-aliasing
pgserver: DEFINES+= -DPRIVATE_CODE -DLOCKUSERFILE=1 -DEVSERVER=1 -DEVSERVER_FORK=1
pgserver: PGLOAD= -lpq -pthread
pgserver: all
pgserver: EXECUTABLE=../BINARIES/ChatScriptpg
pgserver: INCLUDEDIRS="-Ievserver -Ipostgres -I../privatecode"
pgserver: CFLAGS=-c -Wall -funsigned-char -Wno-write-strings -Wno-char-subscripts -Wno-strict-aliasing
mongoserver: DEFINES+= -DPRIVATE_CODE -DLOCKUSERFILE=1 -DEVSERVER=1 -DEVSERVER_FORK=1
mongoserver: PGLOAD= -lpq -pthread
mongoserver: all
mongoserver: EXECUTABLE=../BINARIES/ChatScriptmongo
mongoserver: INCLUDEDIRS="-Ievserver -I../privatecode"
mongoserver: CFLAGS=-c -Wall -funsigned-char -Wno-write-strings -Wno-char-subscripts -Wno-strict-aliasing
server_dry_run: DEFINES+= -DPRIVATE_CODE -DLOCKUSERFILE=1 -DEVSERVER=1 -DEVSERVER_FORK=1 -DDISCARDDATABASE=1
server_dry_run: PGLOAD= -pthread
server_dry_run: INCLUDEDIRS=-Ievserver -I../privatecode
server_dry_run: all
server_dry_run: EXECUTABLE=../BINARIES/ChatScript
server_dry_run: CFLAGS=-c -Wall -funsigned-char -Wno-write-strings -Wno-char-subscripts -Wno-strict-aliasing
# Uncomment this line if you want to filter out variables already defined.
# VARS_OLD := $(.VARIABLES)
CUR-DIR := $(shell pwd)
LOG-DIR := $(CUR-DIR)/make-logs
$(info INCLUDEDIRS="$(INCLUDEDIRS)")
$(foreach v,$(filter-out $(VARS_OLD) VARS_OLD,$(.VARIABLES)),$(info $(v) = $($(v))))
UNAME := $(shell uname)
CC=g++
ifeq ($(UNAME), Linux)
$(info ************ LINUX VERSION ************)
LDFLAGS= -lrt -lcurl --verbose $(PGLOAD)
endif
ifeq ($(UNAME), Darwin)
$(info ************ MAC VERSION ************)
LDFLAGS=-mmacosx-version-min=10.7 $(PGLOAD)
CFLAGS=-mmacosx-version-min=10.7 -c -Wall -funsigned-char -Wno-write-strings -Wno-char-subscripts
endif
SOURCES=constructCode.cpp evserver.cpp csocket.cpp cs_ev.c dictionarySystem.cpp englishTagger.cpp factSystem.cpp functionExecute.cpp english.cpp infer.cpp javascript.cpp jsmn.cpp markSystem.cpp os.cpp outputSystem.cpp patternSystem.cpp privatesrc.cpp scriptCompile.cpp spellcheck.cpp secure.cpp systemVariables.cpp tagger.cpp testing.cpp textUtilities.cpp tokenSystem.cpp topicSystem.cpp userCache.cpp userSystem.cpp variableSystem.cpp mainSystem.cpp
OBJECTS=$(SOURCES:.cpp=.o)
all: $(SOURCES) binary
clean:
-rm -f $(EXECUTABLE)
-rm -f ../$(EXECUTABLE)
-rm -f *.o
binary: $(OBJECTS)
$(CC) $(OBJECTS) $(LDFLAGS) $(DEFINES) $(INCLUDEDIRS) -o $(EXECUTABLE)
.cpp.o:
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(DEFINES) $(INCLUDEDIRS) $< -o $@
