[fpc-pascal] Do the make commands have a way of listing the options and possible values for them?

[Tomas Hajny]

On Tue, March 31, 2015 15:18, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> vfclists . wrote on Tue, 31 Mar 2015:
>
>> The ./configure command used by a lot of unix programs can list the
>> options
>> and possible values for them.
>
> Note that ./configure can only do this if someone explicitly added
> information about all of those options to the help text of a
> particular configure script.
>
>> Do the make commands for Lazarus and FPC have
>> such an option?
>
> No, nobody has written such a help text for the FPC or Lazarus
> makefiles. There is some information in the documentation, but it
> hasn't been updated in a long time and is both incomplete and largely
> out of date.

For completeness - "make help" is supported for at least both the fpcbuild
and fpc Makefiles, but their content is limited to listing the Makefile
targets (and even that it somewhat outdated these days) and it does not
include any information about additional options modifying the overall
behaviour.

Tomas