debugging failing build / additional make parameters

[Peter FELECAN]

Riccardo Mottola <rmottola at opencsw.org> writes:

> one needs to run "make messages=yes" to see the actual commands (debug).
> How can I pass this?

When you give an argument to make, such as "messages=yes", what you do is
define a make variable "messages" havin the value of "yes", isn't it?
Consequently, puting the stanza "messages=yes" in the Makefile has the
same results. The question that you must answer is: in which Makefile do
you put that.
-- 
Peter