From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12411: 24.2.50; No `make help' target? Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 01:09:32 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87har5lyjz.fsf@altern.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="0000000000006e43e10590948dc7" Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="169497"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 12411@debbugs.gnu.org, Bastien To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 21 01:10:25 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 1i0DGj-000hyS-1t for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2019 01:10:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42610 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i0DGh-0006vW-Mo for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:10:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42169) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i0DGN-0006vQ-Hf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:10:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i0DGM-0007qD-7f for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:10:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53618) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i0DGM-0007q4-4h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:10:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i0DGL-0000FC-Ta for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:10:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87har5lyjz.fsf@altern.org> Resent-From: Stefan Kangas Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 23:10:01 +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=B12411.1566342596924 (code B ref 12411); Tue, 20 Aug 2019 23:10:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12411) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Aug 2019 23:09:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34206 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i0DGG-0000Eq-GU for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:09:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pf1-f176.google.com ([209.85.210.176]:36134) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i0DGB-0000Ea-Py for 12411@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:09:52 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pf1-f176.google.com with SMTP id w2so101934pfi.3 for <12411@debbugs.gnu.org>; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:09:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=UWIkgDXvC4WZhLHLzvNvTHcfRcA12s/UtxOVl9Kw+Bs=; b=BW/DGz4VdFM1+1w8fd23v4gAfxqaP2M6EgGMxZgaz1QQigZditsZ/b5of1xkWheLr8 dE6hGVNMm856PysN5wZxO4xloYNO7j3XRYBRRjo5UJcqozEFYRZnVJrFUzArjC/ttVDV Fh6wFBhBmp/x6iuf2Us7PyljaIV/0+MvxhDthVlU1Zw8jtE5yNq9LYF2PUhf+GAytqft yJTTnvam0xhiwcRsdSWRkw7/gY/Q1JsnPaswOuy5O2M5y89AOkV+hnH7+ECSjeNX6et8 lvjbdziOoDfGgiVTFek7Ip1sSPPQsHI9/V/28XzOen1DYCSYHsGGHAOQRI8sVIfJEbjH SnTA== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAWheoYGFXKt/cIChqw34Rhdh2YcHb7O/NHcAWcQ58z6C9cS53Vc T/WR5AQJtmgygKgoaLzXpFyQ+FU4AD76zNoBBRI= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqwnUH2XXVGsVNOk3ZpfBttcMSoiZLb/awpw5By3Qc8BSs4DP44WWlkA4ylgQgrWhRGw0ET4cwwKMLLscWKV01k= X-Received: by 2002:a63:5f01:: with SMTP id t1mr24464526pgb.200.1566342585908; Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:09:45 -0700 (PDT) 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:165452 Archived-At: --0000000000006e43e10590948dc7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Stefan Monnier 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. 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