[bug #64571] Add option to print targets

2024-01-08 Thread Tim
Follow-up Comment #14, bug#64571 (group make): I think JSON would be a good solution. > (b) these tools (like jq for example) are not part of most standard systems and so can't be relied on to exist everywhere, It's no harder to install `jq` than it is to install `make` these days, even on relat

Re: [bug #64571] Add option to print targets

2024-01-08 Thread Martin Dorey
* even on relatively ancient distro I could easily install it on Debian Wheezy (via wheezy-backports), a release from ten years ago. I can't see someone using the next version of Gnu Make and wanting cutting edge facilities for debugging their makefiles on such a crusty old thing. JSON fe

[bug #65019] Let function segfaults when foreach return empty list

2024-01-08 Thread Jouke Witteveen
Follow-up Comment #4, bug#65019 (group make): Thanks for applying! If I'm not mistaken, I had put a reference in the subject and _git am_ would have included it in the commit message. ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #64571] Add option to print targets

2024-01-08 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #15, bug#64571 (group make): Just to point out, GNU Make doesn't provide any support for autocompletion in its package. Any autocompletion that is available is provided by other packages, for example the bash-completion package: $ head -n1 /usr/share/bash-completion/completion

[bug #64571] Add option to print targets

2024-01-08 Thread David A. Wheeler
Follow-up Comment #16, bug#64571 (group make): I think it's important to identify "what is the use case" before adding options. I think there are two different use cases that are getting conflated. I suggest supporting two different options for the two cases. 1. "Give me the list of targets of th

[bug #64571] Add option to print targets

2024-01-08 Thread Paul D. Smith
Update of bug#64571 (group make): Status:None => Fixed Assigned to:None => psmith Open/Closed:Open => Closed Operating System: