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diff --git a/mk/boilerplate.mk b/mk/boilerplate.mk
index 5f31a25..0e7e752 100644
--- a/mk/boilerplate.mk
+++ b/mk/boilerplate.mk
@@ -14,13 +14,7 @@
 # Setting .SUFFIXES to empty disables them all.
 MAKEFLAGS += --no-builtin-rules
 
-# GHC_TOP is the *relative* path to the fptools toplevel directory from the
-# location where a project Makefile was invoked. It is set by looking at the
-# current value of TOP.
-#
-GHC_TOP := $(TOP)
-
-# $(FPTOOLS_TOP) is the old name for $(GHC_TOP), kept for backwards compat
+# $(FPTOOLS_TOP) is the old name for $(TOP), kept for backwards compat
 FPTOOLS_TOP := $(TOP)
 
 
@@ -28,6 +22,15 @@ FPTOOLS_TOP := $(TOP)
 #		THIS RULE MUST REMAIN FIRST!
 default: all
 
+#------------------------------------------------------------
+# 			Makefile debugging
+# to see the effective value used for a Makefile variable, do
+#  make show VALUE=MY_VALUE
+#
+
+show:
+	@echo '$(VALUE)="$($(VALUE))"'
+
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Misc bits