[Hello71]

> The real insanity with make is that it has no interface to check whether a Makefile contains a given target.

>

> Best you can do is to run make -n target to probe, but it's possible to write Makefiles that run code even though -n is used, which will defeat such probes at distribution scale. It quickly becomes an exercise in heuristics and output parsing.

[TheDong]

We're arguing different things.

The comment I replied to, chaosfactors, specifically specified grepping the makefile. You're arguing that you can find all the targets and I never said you can't. I simply said you can't find them all by only grepping the makefile.