I’ve written in the past about using Makefiles for build automation and documentation. But sometimes I wish to provide help to users, that doesn’t require being a Makefiles expert to read! Let’s explore how we can teach users our build system by turning the project’s Makefile (and awk) into a cheap documentation-as-code tool. What it looks like make help Code Snippet 1: How to ask for help Figure 1: Result of asking for help
