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Subject: ports make machinery lacks `make help`
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>Number:         20788
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       ports make machinery lacks `make help`
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Aug 22 14:10:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:    Tue Aug 22 18:42:01 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Tue Aug 22 18:42:38 PDT 2000
>Originator:     Gerald Pfeifer
>Release:        4.1-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
The make machinery of the ports (sub)tree offers tons of commands which
are not always easy to remember, yet `make help` does not exist.

I am aware of the Handbook etc., but really, `make help` with a single
line for each of the standard targets like fetch,... would we very
useful.
>How-To-Repeat:
% cd .../ports/some/ports
% make help
make: don't know how to make help. Stop

>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: will 
State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 22 18:42:01 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
We have a manpage, ports(7), for this purpose. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20788 
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