From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12411: 24.2.50; No `make help' target? Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 19:57:08 +0300 Message-ID: <83sgpujw2j.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87har5lyjz.fsf@altern.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="257574"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: bzg@altern.org, 12411@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 21 19:02:55 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i0U0d-0014tn-12 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2019 19:02:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50718 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i0U0b-0002Qi-Rb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:02:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35214) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i0Tvw-0006vC-7K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:58:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i0Tvv-0004Wd-5o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:58:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:55841) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i0Tvv-0004WL-2O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:58:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i0Tvu-0002QL-GU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:58:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:58:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12411 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 12411-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12411.15664066319245 (code B ref 12411); Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:58:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12411) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Aug 2019 16:57:11 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36429 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i0Tv5-0002P3-EK for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:57:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50947) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i0Tv3-0002Or-RG for 12411@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:57:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44917) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i0Tux-0003T1-T0; Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:57:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2408 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i0Tuw-0007oT-BC; Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:57:02 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Kangas on Wed, 21 Aug 2019 01:09:32 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:165511 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 01:09:32 +0200 > Cc: 12411@debbugs.gnu.org, Bastien > > I'm not a Makefile expert, so I couldn't find a way to skip the > configure step and immediately echo. There's GNUmakefile which could be used for that purpose. > + @echo "make clean -- delete files from build" > + @echo "make mostlyclean -- delete most files from build" > + @echo "make distclean -- delete files from build and configure" > + @echo "make maintainer-clean -- delete almost everything that can be regenerated" It would be good to have these 4 more descriptive. The above basically just repeats the target names, which is not very helpful. > + @echo "make bootstrap -- delete all files and force a new bootstrap" "Delete all files" sounds scary, and is also incorrect. > + @echo "make uninstall -- delete all installed files" I'd say "remove files installed by 'make install'" > + @echo "make docs -- generate Emacs documentation" > + @echo "make html -- generate html documentation" > + @echo "make ps -- generate ps documentation" > + @echo "make pdf -- generate pdf documentation" The description of "make docs" should tell which formats it produces, otherwise its relation to the 3 other docs-related targets is not clear. Thanks.