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bug#12411: 24.2.50; No `make help' target?
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Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#12411: 24.2.50; No `make help' target? |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Aug 2019 01:09:32 +0200 |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> sed -n 's/^\([a-z]*\):.*/\1/p' Makefile # plus uniq...
>> They are all pretty much standard targets, and documented at the top of
>> the Makefile.
>
> It's not always easy to find the doc corresponding to a given target, so
> I think it would indeed be a good idea to make "make help" return some
> useful info.
> I also think it would be a valuable addition to the GNU coding standards.
> Just like all commands should accept a "--help", it would make sense for
> the main Makefile to do something useful with "make help".
How about something like the attached patch?
I'm not a Makefile expert, so I couldn't find a way to skip the
configure step and immediately echo.
Thanks,
Stefan Kangas
0001-Add-new-make-help-target.patch
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