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 22:47:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0svcfiprk1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871ui7y32n.fsf@altern.org> (Bastien's message of "Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:59:12 +0200")
Bastien wrote:
> Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I'm not optimistic that any more people will read this than read
>> INSTALL.BZR or the commentary in the Makefile.
>
> Fair enough. My basic assumption is that users are used to run
> `make help' when they are trying to understand what they do, but
> that may be wrong.
I think you should feel free to add such a target if you think it will
be useful to people. Don't let my pessimism discourage you! :)
(I've never tried to run `make help' for anything.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-13 2:47 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
2012-09-12 9:59 ` Bastien
2012-09-13 2:47 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
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
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