Nguyþÿ Ån Thþÿ > I find this "make help" very helpful (at work, on a different > project). With this I don't have to crawl through Makefile when I need > something but cannot remember what's the target name. It should also > help discover new targets. > > We may also have "make vars" (or something like that) that shows list > of user-configurable variables, basically a conversion of the big > comment block near the makefile's top into a printable target. > > I don't work with this Makefile much, so this is just an idea. Anyone > up to turn it to something actually useful? Should this be in commit message, or in comments (below "---\n")? Nb. there was at least one attempt to add "make help" using in-Makefile _annotations_, so that "make help" wouldn't get badly out of sync... > Signed-off-by: Nguyþÿ Ån Thþÿ > --- > Makefile | 14 ++++++++++++++ > 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index ed82320..abf6cf9 100644 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile > @@ -2603,3 +2603,17 @@ profile-all: profile-clean > $(MAKE) CFLAGS="$(PROFILE_GEN_CFLAGS)" all > $(MAKE) CFLAGS="$(PROFILE_GEN_CFLAGS)" -j1 test > $(MAKE) CFLAGS="$(PROFILE_USE_CFLAGS)" all > + > +.PHONY: help > + > +help: > + @echo "test Run the test suite" > + @echo "coverage Build git with coverage support" > + @echo "cover_db Generate coverage database from *.gcov" > + @echo "cover_db_html Generate coverage report" > + @echo "profile-all Build git with profiling support" > + @echo "clean Clean intermediate files" > + @echo "distclean Clean even more for dist packaging" > + @echo "sparse Run git with sparse" > + @echo "cscope Generate cscope symbol database" > + @echo "check-docs Check documentation" > -- > 1.7.8.36.g69ee2 > -- Jakub Narþÿbski -- 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