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The Make Targets view is empty for a managed C make - no clean, all, ... Adding a makefile.targets make sno additions either.
Managed make projects are not currently able to contribute to the make target list. If there is time in 2.1, we will address the problems. However, there will only be two targets for a managed project (all and clean), so this will only be a convenience for the user, not a way to add new targets for the generator.
That's disappointing, because I've been surprised at how good the managed make is and with autogeneration of child lists, there are many make problems that can be solved solely within the top-level makefile.defs/init. e.g. "make backup" to copy all changed files to more persistent storage.
Point taken. Let be more specific about the problem. I did try to use the make target view in the 2.0 release, but there are two requirements the managed builder has that cannot currently be met by the view. First, I need to be able to turn off adding/removing a target in the generated makefiles, but leave it on for user-supplied files. Second, I have to sort the use case of editing make settings via that dialog. In short, it was too much risk at the time. The next window for looking at this is the 2.1 release.
I don't know if this is a direction Leo wants to take the MBS. If so, the problems I had were serious and require a committment from the maintainers of the make target view to support the use cases I mentioned, namely the ability to turn off the add/remove menu item selectively and disable the edit functionality (or at least delegate it to the MBS so we can display the correct UI).
Future means you commit to fix it in the Future. Inboxes can't make committments. Moving to '--'.
Triaging as valid. No one is currently planning on working on this. Help wanted.
Mmm, one of early patches I played with is along this line, bug 238919. Shell be revisited and reworked one day...
