"make help" is definitely not a standard. For all I know "make help"
builds help.exe. But there is a standard way to get available commands:
Just look at the README or open the Makefile with a text-editor!
The lack of a standard argument for getting help doesn't make it
problematic for use as a command runner. You can't get atomatically all
available commands from a Makefile just like you can't get all
command-line flags from an executable. The program/Makefile has to
provide it by itself.
The lack of a standard argument for getting help doesn't make it problematic for use as a command runner. You can't get atomatically all available commands from a Makefile just like you can't get all command-line flags from an executable. The program/Makefile has to provide it by itself.