Subject: bug#12411: 24.2.50; No `make help' target?

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:52:59 -0400

Bastien wrote:

> `make help' would display a one-line help about the various
> available targets:

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.

> 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'."

It is written in INSTALL.BZR...

> I guess `make help' could give a better exposure to this option?

I'm not optimistic that any more people will read this than read
INSTALL.BZR or the commentary in the Makefile.