Simplify Makefile help target

An in-line Python script, while flexible, is arguably
more complex and less stable than the long-lived `grep`,
`awk`, and `printf`.  Make use of these simple tools
to display a column-aligned table of target and description
help output.

Also, the first target that appears in a Makefile is considered
the default (when no target is specified on the command-line).
However, despite it's name, the `default` target was not listed
first.  Fix this, and redefine "default" target to "all" as
intended, instead of "help".

Lastly, add a small workaround for a vim syntax-hilighting bug.

Signed-off-by: Chris Evich <cevich@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/hack/get_release_info.sh b/hack/get_release_info.sh
index 40c473246..b3e208ac9 100755
--- a/hack/get_release_info.sh
+++ b/hack/get_release_info.sh
@@ -14,12 +14,20 @@ valid_args() {
         cut -d '*' -f 1
 }
 
-# `git describe` does not reliably produce a useful version number.
+# `git describe` will never produce a useful version number under all
+# branches.  This is because the podman release process (see `RELEASE_PROCESS.md`)
+# tags release versions only on release-branches (i.e. never on master).
+# Scraping the version number directly from the source, is the only way
+# to reliably obtain the number from all the various contexts supported by
+# the `Makefile`.
 scrape_version() {
-    local versionfile='version/version.go'
-    local version_line=$(grep -m 1 'var Version =' $versionfile)
-    local version_string=$(cut -d '"' -f 2 <<<"$version_line")
-    echo "$version_string" | tr -d '[:space:]'
+    local v
+    # extract the value of 'var Version'
+    v=$(sed -ne 's/^var\s\+Version\s\+=\s.*("\(.*\)").*/\1/p' <version/version.go)
+    # If it's empty, something has changed in version.go, that would be bad!
+    test -n "$v"
+    # Value consumed literally, must not have any embedded newlines
+    echo -n "$v"
 }
 
 unset OUTPUT