From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: 12411@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12411: 24.2.50; No `make help' target?
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:52:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2ir4q7ad9g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pq5sfgdf.fsf@altern.org> (Bastien's message of "Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:34:36 +0200")
Bastien wrote:
> `make help' would display a one-line help about the various
> available targets:
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.
> Documenting `make extraclean' is not important IMO but documenting
> `make bootstrap' could be: there are often questions on emacs-devel
> which are answered by "You need to `make bootstrap'."
It is written in INSTALL.BZR...
> I guess `make help' could give a better exposure to this option?
I'm not optimistic that any more people will read this than read
INSTALL.BZR or the commentary in the Makefile.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-12 7:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-11 9:05 bug#12411: 24.2.50; No `make help' target? Bastien
2012-09-11 19:14 ` Glenn Morris
2012-09-11 20:34 ` Bastien
2012-09-12 7:52 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2012-09-12 9:59 ` Bastien
2012-09-13 2:47 ` Glenn Morris
2012-09-13 12:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-13 3:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-20 23:09 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-08-21 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-27 23:56 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-08-28 11:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-29 10:01 ` Stefan Kangas
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=2ir4q7ad9g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org \
--to=rgm@gnu.org \
--cc=12411@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=bzg@altern.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).