On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: > > > Thanks, sadly it is not helpful. > > I wasn't saying it worked now, but that it was the target that should be > used to print help. <insert broken fingers message> where are the current docs for it that we move to this place? Thanks, Matt > > $ make -f gmakefile help > > make: *** No rule to make target `help'. Stop. > > > > > > > >> On Jun 17, 2017, at 6:53 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: > >> > >>> make -f gmakefile test XXXX > >>> > >>> appears to be a very powerful tool, as such it needs a useful help > message since it is next to impossible to know where to look to find all > its options. > >>> > >>> make -f gmakefile test help=1 > >> > >> This is more-or-less a convention: > >> > >> make -f gmakefile help > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mk51/
