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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test1: "make help" is not complete
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On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 08:29:37AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   just an observation -- "make help" doesn't list all possible
> make options.  minimally, "make randconfig" is not listed there,
> although i'm not surprised that this feature is not prominently
> advertised. :-)
"make help" is not for the advanced user.
I deliberately did not include the more exotic targets - and you may
argue that there is already too many targets listed.

I see no reason to include more targets in "make help".

	Sam