<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Jed Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jed@jedbrown.org" target="_blank">jed@jedbrown.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Barry Smith <<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>> writes:<br>
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> Thanks, sadly it is not helpful.<br>
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</span>I wasn't saying it worked now, but that it was the target that should be<br>
used to print help.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><insert broken fingers message></div><div><br></div><div>where are the current docs for it that we move to this place?</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
> $ make -f gmakefile help<br>
> make: *** No rule to make target `help'. Stop.<br>
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>> On Jun 17, 2017, at 6:53 PM, Jed Brown <<a href="mailto:jed@jedbrown.org">jed@jedbrown.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Barry Smith <<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>> writes:<br>
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>>> make -f gmakefile test XXXX<br>
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>>> 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.<br>
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>>> make -f gmakefile test help=1<br>
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>> This is more-or-less a convention:<br>
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>> make -f gmakefile help<br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mk51/" target="_blank">http://www.caam.rice.edu/~mk51/</a><br></div></div></div>
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