From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12411: 24.2.50; No `make help' target? Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:52:59 -0400 Message-ID: <2ir4q7ad9g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87har5lyjz.fsf@altern.org> <2lpq5sjrsc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87pq5sfgdf.fsf@altern.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347436413 4498 80.91.229.3 (12 Sep 2012 07:53:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:53:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12411@debbugs.gnu.org To: Bastien Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 12 09:53:36 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TBhlN-0001yi-9H for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:53:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35444 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TBhlJ-0002eD-LB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:53:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45239) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TBhlB-0002di-QO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:53:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TBhl7-0004Tp-TH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:53:21 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46321) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TBhl7-0004Ta-R2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:53:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TBhlq-0008BN-78 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:54:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:54:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12411 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 12411-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12411.134743643031434 (code B ref 12411); Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:54:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12411) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Sep 2012 07:53:50 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55867 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TBhle-0008Aw-7G for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:53:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:44118) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TBhlb-0008Ap-3H for 12411@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:53:48 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TBhkp-0006fR-DK; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:52:59 -0400 X-Spook: Putin strategic ASLET AIEWS John Kerry Leuken-Baden ASDIC X-Ran: =LTXV9Y+AyrEmVfy&X'Sj_\kn>v3!Y-jyjT^+c*d7[esXM"u[|~Pype{X,F%NbjL;W&D>$ X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87pq5sfgdf.fsf@altern.org> (Bastien's message of "Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:34:36 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:64174 Archived-At: 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.