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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, sam@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: src/Makefile unhelpful
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:35:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1oXbAG-0006GV-ER@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220911.171640.671293773052264768.wl@gnu.org> (message from Werner LEMBERG on Sun, 11 Sep 2022 15:16:40 +0000 (UTC))

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  > Another possibility would be to implement `make help` to show the
  > possible targets and variables to control them.

That would be good if people expected to use that command.
Currently they don't.

We could make it part of the GNU coding standards -- then people
might try it when they seek such information.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-12  4:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-07  2:19 src/Makefile unhelpful Richard Stallman
2022-09-07  2:38 ` Po Lu
2022-09-07  2:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-08  3:00   ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-08  4:51     ` Sam James
2022-09-11  3:38       ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-11  5:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-11  9:57           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-11 11:59             ` Po Lu
2022-09-11 12:07               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-11 12:16                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-13  4:07               ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-13 16:11                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-14 20:02                   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-09-14 20:05                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-14 20:47                       ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15  7:14                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-15  7:28                           ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15  7:32                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-15  7:41                               ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15  9:07                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-15 14:33                             ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-09-15 16:04                               ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-17 10:46                             ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-17 11:20                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-09-17 16:41                                 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2022-09-17 22:59                                   ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-17 22:58                                 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-18 10:37                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-18 11:38                                 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-09-18 11:53                                   ` Andreas Schwab
2022-09-18 12:05                                     ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-09-18 13:48                                       ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-18 16:40                                     ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-18 16:59                                       ` Andreas Schwab
2022-09-18 21:50                                         ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-19 17:20                                           ` chad
2022-09-19 17:25                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-19 20:42                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-18 21:39                                 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-15 13:13                           ` Ken Brown
2022-09-15 14:01                             ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-11 15:16           ` Werner LEMBERG
2022-09-12  4:35             ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-09-08  6:14     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-08  7:29       ` Andreas Schwab
2022-09-08 13:18       ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-11  3:38       ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-11  5:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-14  4:12           ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-14 11:33             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-07  3:11 ` Sam James

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