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Date:   Fri, 8 Apr 2022 11:30:14 -0400
From:   Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To:     Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: add help target
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On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 07:45:24AM +0000, 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.

I could definitely see something like "make help" being helpful, since
make itself doesn't have a convenient way to list all of a Makefile's
targets.

I worry about this list getting stale, though. If we add a new target,
will we remember to update the "help" list here? It would be nice if we
could dynamically generate this list, but I think that loses out on the
filtering you've done here.

Thanks,
Taylor