Best practice for extracting information from a makefile

[Andreas Schwab]

Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> writes:

> I was hoping something like "make -p ..." would work but it doesn't
> evaluated the variables, which seems useless since if I just wanted
> the raw output 'cat' would work.

$ make -f Makefile -f - <<<'echo-foo:; @echo $(foo)' echo-foo

Andreas.

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