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bug#12411: 24.2.50; No `make help' target?
From: |
Bastien |
Subject: |
bug#12411: 24.2.50; No `make help' target? |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:34:36 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> Bastien wrote:
>
>> `make help' and `make targets' don't exist in last rev.
>
> In general, Emacs has the standard GNU Makefile targets:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Standard-Targets.html
>
> Your proposed two are not in that list.
> Could you say what you want them to do?
My bad, I thought the `help' target was a GNU standard.
`make help' would display a one-line help about the various
available targets:
# make all
# make install
# make TAGS
# make clean (or make mostlyclean)
# make distclean
# make maintainer-clean
# make extraclean
# make bootstrap
(Taken from INSTALL, not from the actual Makefile.)
If I'm not confused, the last two targets are not in the
GNU standards (`bootstrap' and `extraclean').
Documenting `make extraclean' is not important IMO but
documenting `make bootstrap' could be: there are often
questions on emacs-devel which are answered by "You need
to `make bootstrap'."
I guess `make help' could give a better exposure to this
option?
--
Bastien