From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: src/Makefile unhelpful Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:35:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <81B26ACA-E8C3-4FAC-9BB5-A6B40C3B4A55@gentoo.org> <83fsgya2yx.fsf@gnu.org> <20220911.171640.671293773052264768.wl@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26471"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, sam@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Werner LEMBERG Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 12 06:37:22 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oXbCC-0006jG-I6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:37:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40180 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oXbCB-0004GW-Ib for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:37:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58490) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oXbAH-0003FJ-Hj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:35:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38198) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oXbAG-00014x-PL; Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:35:20 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=h+KwkfKIcA4U4tiOPfpayTDfY/yTuqyj0qvP93cdU9o=; b=W4BaIZSHINyE Ofh7deAa0lAcs6R4SyZ2x+WbYq7ejr86TQyi5avlRviIynMUgDT8t4BJKmkpTxB6VDS2LQ/4Ojjbi rK5TpNzGpVTMsfP6PnKbTieIdDvTYLnzRQ1JsF4IRSaGhJK9irSsD858Nt/dUYOxXmN4FvPaZwJ8w 8LDZ1RTLxSSmojN1zmMacXON/sd2H/XZcD8WccLRKt+KwtTpyp4l8IJ8B8fqRxIOh9QbzbjWdS3RT 1B/euQikjwI2ifp3JpIwxsOtOzd1O5z88DYvwjuRHPOQHFZnenuCIu6GCUHilmffi1va/olqXgwae h9xQLuQLl8mBLxvt5uZnFg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oXbAG-0006GV-ER; Mon, 12 Sep 2022 00:35:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20220911.171640.671293773052264768.wl@gnu.org> (message from Werner LEMBERG on Sun, 11 Sep 2022 15:16:40 +0000 (UTC)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:295189 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)