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This particular text can be seen by running ‘make help’.
As soon as the configure script finishes its execution, the
build system is instantiated so you can use the command make
to tell the build system what task you want done. In order to do that
you can run ‘make goal’, where goal is one of the
supported goals. Actually, make accepts an arbitrary list
of goals at once, separated by blanks, in which case it will strive to
accomplish each of them.
This package’s build system has a help mechanism which will assist you through the build and installation process, as well as instruct you about all relevant goals. Throughout its help documentation you are pointed to specific help topics — denoted by ‘help-topic’ — which you can visualize by running ‘make help-topic’, where topic is the topic at hand.
This package has a somewhat different set of make goals and rules one would expect from an ordinary GNU software package. The help documentation describes the most general function of each available goal, whose meaning often can be further specialized by the use of suffixes. See ‘help-suffixes’. You can obtain further help in the following topics.
Building;
Installation;
Cleaning;
Distribution;