[bug #64571] Add option to print targets

[Tim]

Follow-up Comment #14, bug#64571 (group make):

I think JSON would be a good solution.

> (b) these tools (like jq for example) are not part of most standard systems
and so can't be relied on to exist everywhere,

It's no harder to install `jq` than it is to install `make` these days, even
on relatively ancient distros. I don't see why this would be an issue.

> (c) jq, at least, is somewhat tricky to use correctly especially if you want
to do matching etc.

I don't particularly like its syntax but it's not especially difficult, and
let's face it most people are going to be googling "how to print make targets"
and copy/pasting the first stack-overflow page.

On the other hand, maybe it is over-complicating things.


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