bash completion of makefile target

Question

Suppose I have a simple makefile like:

hello:
   echo \"hello world\"

bye:
   echo \"bye bye\"

Then in bash I want something like:

Answer 1

Could this be what you're looking for?

http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashcompletion/

make [Tab] would complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need to do on a daily basis.