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

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>
> >   Thanks, sadly it is not helpful.
>
> I wasn't saying it worked now, but that it was the target that should be
> used to print help.


<insert broken fingers message>

where are the current docs for it that we move to this place?

  Thanks,

     Matt


> > $ 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
>



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