From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bastien Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12411: 24.2.50; No `make help' target? 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[81.56.68.112]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bc2sm11109054wib.0.2012.09.12.02.59.11 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:59:12 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by myhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 39BE089A2; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:59:12 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <2ir4q7ad9g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:52:59 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:64180 Archived-At: Glenn Morris 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. -- Bastien