Suggestion: "make help" should print list of configurations

[Erik Joelsson]

Created bug 8009371 for this.

/Erik

On 2013-02-24 16:08, Mike Duigou wrote:
> 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.