
Self-Documenting Makefiles
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Patrick Egan patrick.egan@cmcrossroads.com
By John Graham-Cumming
One common question upon encountering a new Makefile is “What does this Makefile do?”, or “What are the important targets I need to know about?”. For any sizable Makefile, answering those questions can be very difficult.
In this article I present a simple GNU Make trick that you can use to make a Makefile self-documenting and print out help automatically.
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