From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: bzg@altern.org, 12411@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#12411: 24.2.50; No `make help' target?
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 19:57:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sgpujw2j.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmmMqVC61q_QgRKNnBE2gZ4ujrmQb=8ZufsKFt+s46H6NQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Wed, 21 Aug 2019 01:09:32 +0200)
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 01:09:32 +0200
> Cc: 12411@debbugs.gnu.org, Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-21 16:57 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
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 [this message]
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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