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

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:23:19 -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