[Buildroot] [PATCH] core/help: fix custom help without a .config
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Fri Apr 15 22:16:06 UTC 2016
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
Hi,
>> > Instead, we require the custom help to be defined in its own file in the
>> > br2-external tree. This way, we can safely include it unconditionally.
>>
>> IMHO that custom help was a bad idea. It's adding complexity, an extra file in
>> BR2_EXTERNAL, and really not that useful...
> Agreed. I'm not sure it's worth it. It's still time to revert if we
> don't think it's a good idea. Peter?
> Without this custom help thing, it is already possible to define some
> custom make target in external.mk that will display some help. It won't
> be available until a configuration is defined, but oh well, who reads
> help texts anyway?
Yeah, I also think this adds too much complexity just for a pointer to
help text. I think we should drop it.
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Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard
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