On 08/04/2022 08:45, Elia Pinto wrote: > Add a help target to the Makefile to be able to run make help, in the same way > does the Makefiles self-generated by some build systems. > > The target list has been statically extracted from the git Makefile with a > script and the results have been filtered in an essentially arbitrary way to > leave the ones that i imagines most interesting and frequent for a developer. > > Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > The toy script I used is here > https://gist.github.com/devzero2000/cb887a6ba2764f7234191e560b64b7c8#file-list_targets_makefile-sh > Makefile | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index e8aba291d7..f6d6de2eb9 100644 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile > @@ -3448,3 +3448,66 @@ $(FUZZ_PROGRAMS): all > $(XDIFF_OBJS) $(EXTLIBS) git.o $@.o $(LIB_FUZZING_ENGINE) -o $@ > > fuzz-all: $(FUZZ_PROGRAMS) > + > +# Help Target > +help: > + @echo "The following are some of the valid targets for this Makefile:" > + @echo "... all (the default if no target is provided)" > + @echo "... build-perl-script" > + @echo "... build-python-script" > + @echo "... build-sh-script" > + @echo "... check" > + @echo "... check-builtins" > + @echo "... check-docs" > + @echo "... check-sha1" > + @echo "... clean" > + @echo "... clean-perl-script" > + @echo "... clean-python-script" > + @echo "... clean-sh-script" > + @echo "... coccicheck" > + @echo "... coccicheck-pending" > + @echo "... cocciclean" > + @echo "... configure" > + @echo "... coverage" > + @echo "... coverage-clean" > + @echo "... coverage-clean-results" > + @echo "... coverage-compile" > + @echo "... coverage-prove" > + @echo "... coverage-report" > + @echo "... coverage-test" > + @echo "... coverage-untested-functions" > + @echo "... cover_db" > + @echo "... cover_db_html" > + @echo "... cscope" > + @echo "... dist" > + @echo "... distclean" > + @echo "... dist-doc" > + @echo "... doc" > + @echo "... fuzz-all" > + @echo "... fuzz-commit-graph" > + @echo "... fuzz-objs" > + @echo "... fuzz-pack-headers" > + @echo "... fuzz-pack-idx" > + @echo "... html" > + @echo "... info" > + @echo "... install" > + @echo "... man" > + @echo "... pdf" > + @echo "... perf" > + @echo "... profile" > + @echo "... profile-clean" > + @echo "... profile-fast" > + @echo "... profile-fast-install" > + @echo "... profile-install" > + @echo "... quick-install-doc" > + @echo "... quick-install-html" > + @echo "... quick-install-man" > + @echo "... reconfigure" > + @echo "... rpm" > + @echo "... sparse" > + @echo "... strip" > + @echo "... style" > + @echo "... tags" > + @echo "... TAGS" > + @echo "... test" > +.PHONY : help Makes me realise how many areas I'm unfamiliar with, .. which is a help. ;-) -- Philip
