[bug #64571] Add option to print targets

[Paul D. Smith]

Follow-up Comment #15, bug#64571 (group make):

Just to point out, GNU Make doesn't provide any support for autocompletion in
its package.  Any autocompletion that is available is provided by other
packages, for example the bash-completion package:


$ head -n1 /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/make
# bash completion for GNU make                             -*- shell-script
-*-

$ dpkg -S /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/make
bash-completion: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/make


As far as I'm aware this package is part of the standard system installation
on many/most GNU/Linux distributions.

So it's not a matter of someone installing make vs. jq.  It's a matter of
whether the maintainers of these generic packages are willing to write
completion scripts which require other non-standard packages to be installed
before they can be of use, or whether they will simply continue to use their
current workarounds because they don't want to make that requirement.

If the latter then this request has failed its intended audience, I expect.

Also getting jq for Windows etc. is less simple, although I don't know if
those platforms have any use for it anyway.


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