From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>, 12411@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12411: 24.2.50; No `make help' target?
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:23:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvligefvzz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2ir4q7ad9g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:52:59 -0400")
> sed -n 's/^\([a-z]*\):.*/\1/p' Makefile # plus uniq...
> They are all pretty much standard targets, and documented at the top of
> the Makefile.
It's not always easy to find the doc corresponding to a given target, so
I think it would indeed be a good idea to make "make help" return some
useful info.
I also think it would be a valuable addition to the GNU coding standards.
Just like all commands should accept a "--help", it would make sense for
the main Makefile to do something useful with "make help".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-13 3:23 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 [this message]
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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