Re: [PATCH] Makefile: implement help target

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Sep 28, 2010, 15:47 UTC
Message-ID: <4CA20E24.90509@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vpqvxubl5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 28.09.2010 17:33:

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> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
> 
>> How's this for a version without maintenance issues?
> 
> Something along these lines would be closer to what I had in mind,
> actually.
> 
> Traditionally a multi-line sed command embed in Makefile has been
> portability nightmare, which is a bit worrysome.

Yes, but I thought for "make help" it's not such problem if it works on most platforms only - others can read inline ;)

If portability is an issue one can work around it - is "grep -A 1" portable? I'd also have to get rid of sort --key=2.

> Isn't there a "makedoc" ala "perldoc" or "javadoc", by the way?

There is a "makedoc" but that's something different...

Michael