Suggestion: "make help" should print list of configurations

[Mike Duigou]

Perfect timing on asking this question Martin. I have been wondering about exactly the same question myself for IDE and external tooling support. To make parsing easier I would prefer if the target which displayed information about the configurations was relatively unadorned.

Mike

On Feb 23 2013, at 09:29 , Martin Buchholz wrote:

> I'm having fun with the shiny new build system.
> It took me a while to discover that "make help" was exceptionally helpful.
> 
> However, I was interested in passing a configuration to CONF= and was
> annoyed there was no clue what to provide.  (I wasn't even sure exactly
> what a "configuration" was)
> 
> After some trial and error, I discovered that
> 
> make CONF=bogus
> 
> would actually give me that precious list of supported configurations.
> It would be nice if "make help" always printed that list, even though by
> default it contains only one entry.