On 12/19/2017 09:45 AM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
+Useful make targets
+===================
+
+- help
+
+ Print a help message for the most common build targets.
Except that this patch forgot to tweak 'make help' to mention 'make
print-VAR' ;)
Well, I don't think print-VAR is a common build target, it's a
build-sys hack/debug imho, so having it described in build-system.txt
only make sense.
Do you agree?
With the bash-completion library installed, performing tab-completion on
'make ' produces a large list of targets, which includes 'help', but
even with your patch does NOT include 'print-CFLAGS' or any variant of
print-. If I use just tab-completion and 'make help', then having
'print-FOO' listed under the "Generic targets:" section of the help
output would let me discover it without me having to read build-system.txt.
Does anyone else have a strong opinion for or against the additional
output in 'make help'?
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