[PATCH/RFC] Makefile: add 'help' target for target summary
- From
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
- Date
- Dec 13, 2011, 13:16 UTC
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- <1323782164-11759-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>
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?
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> --- 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"
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