From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>

Currently the print-variable rule can only be used in the
root directory:

  $ make print-vhost-user-json-y
  vhost-user-json-y= contrib/vhost-user-gpu/50-qemu-gpu.json tools/virtiofsd/50-qemu-virtiofsd.json

  $ make -C i386-softmmu print-obj-y
  make: Entering directory 'build/i386-softmmu'
  make: *** No rule to make target 'print-obj-y'.  Stop.
  make: Leaving directory 'build/i386-softmmu'

Move it to rules.mak so we can use it from other directories:

  $ make -C i386-softmmu print-obj-y
  make: Entering directory 'build/i386-softmmu'
  obj-y=qapi-introspect.o qapi-types-machine-target.o qapi-types-misc-target.o qapi-types.o qapi-visit-machine-target.o qapi-visit-misc-target.o qapi-visit.o qapi-events-machine-target.o qapi-events-misc-target.o qapi-events.o qapi-commands-machine-target.o qapi-commands-misc-target.o qapi-commands.o qapi-init-commands.o
  make: Leaving directory 'build/i386-softmmu'

Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200306170456.21977-1-philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
---
 Makefile  | 3 ---
 rules.mak | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2e930688942b..37aed4a24422 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -15,9 +15,6 @@ UNCHECKED_GOALS := %clean TAGS cscope ctags dist \
     help check-help print-% \
     docker docker-% vm-help vm-test vm-build-%
 
-print-%:
-	@echo '$*=$($*)'
-
 # All following code might depend on configuration variables
 ifneq ($(wildcard config-host.mak),)
 # Put the all: rule here so that config-host.mak can contain dependencies.
diff --git a/rules.mak b/rules.mak
index e39b073d4648..694865b63ee8 100644
--- a/rules.mak
+++ b/rules.mak
@@ -435,3 +435,6 @@ sentinel = .$(subst $(SPACE),_,$(subst /,_,$1)).sentinel.
 atomic = $(eval $1: $(call sentinel,$1) ; @:) \
          $(call sentinel,$1) : $2 ; @touch $$@ \
          $(foreach t,$1,$(if $(wildcard $t),,$(shell rm -f $(call sentinel,$1))))
+
+print-%:
+	@echo '$*=$($*)'
-- 
2.24.1