From: Michael J Gruber Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:47:48 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: implement help target 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: > Michael J Gruber 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