[petsc-dev] make -f gmakefile test needs a proper help message of some sort

[Barry Smith]

  Thanks, sadly it is not helpful.

$ make -f gmakefile help
make: *** No rule to make target `help'.  Stop.



> On Jun 17, 2017, at 6:53 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
> 
> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> 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