[Buildroot] [PATCH 06/16 v3] core: introduce a generated kconfig snippet

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Mon Aug 29 22:25:33 UTC 2016


Arnout, All,

On 2016-08-30 00:14 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 29-08-16 12:02, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 09:50:13 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> > 
> >> Yes, but the list is really long and overwhelming. As it stands, the
> >> list of packages takes up more than half the size of the manual. I think
> >> just asking people to browse packages/ (or make menuconfig) is more
> >> sane.
> > Right.
>  We could replace it with a reference to http://autobuild.buildroot.net/stats/

I'm OK with that.

> >>  > The other thing that I find quite complex for no super benefit is the
> >>  > whole "doc-asciidoc" infrastructure, but that's another story.  
> >>
> >> Yeah, having this infrastructure just for the manual is maybe a bit
> >> overkill.
> 
>  I introduced it back in the day to reduce the size of manual.mk a little. Back
> then I still believed that all code duplication is evil. Now I think that the
> manual generation logic would be a lot easier to understand if it was all
> unrolled...
> 
> > I agree, though some people wanted to build several manuals, if I
> > remember correctly.
> 
>  I never saw the use of that, TBH. But I guess it's out there now so we should
> keep it?

I've seen it. And I use it as well:
    http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/git/buildroot.config/
    http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/download/tmp/br.config/manual/

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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