I'm sorry for duplicated post; I made mistake that made vger anti-SPAM filter stop it. Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > with automatic help text collection from lines starting with "# Help: " and > preceding a make target. > > Suggested-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@xxxxxxxxx> > Helped-by: Andreas Ericsson <andreas.ericsson@xxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Now how's this for portability and such? New output: > > Build targets: > all: Build the Git suite > dist: Build git-$(GIT_VERSION).tar.gz source > dist-doc: Build $(manpages).tar.gz and $(htmldocs).tar.gz > doc: Build man pages and HTML docs > html: Build HTML doc > info: Build info docs > man: Build man pages > pdf: Build PDF docs > rpm: Build source and binary RPM packages > Clean targets: > clean: Remove generated files but keep the configure script > distclean: Remove generated files and the configure script [...] Shouldn't some excerpt of this be put in the commit message as example output fragment? > Makefile | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- > 1 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index db2efd6..497dd92 100644 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile > @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ > # The default target of this Makefile is... > +# Help: Build: Build the Git suite > all:: [...] > ### Testing rules Why can't you use existing headers in Makefile, like the one above, to divide list of targets in "make help" output into categories of targets? > + > +# Help: Help: Show help for main make targets > +help: > + @awk '/^# Help:/ { l=substr($$0,8); \ Doesn't it need to be $(AWK) not awk? > + getline; \ > + j=index(l,":"); \ > + print substr(l,1,j-1), substr($$0,1,index($$0,":")), substr(l,j+2); \ > + }' <Makefile | sort | while read category target text; \ > + do \ > + test "$$category" = "$$currcat" || printf "$$category targets:\n"; \ > + currcat="$$category"; \ > + printf " %-20s%s\n" "$$target" "$$text"; \ > + done > -- > 1.7.3.98.g5ad7d > -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html