[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] help: add a way to document targets declared in local.mk/external.mk
Jérôme Pouiller
jezz at sysmic.org
Wed Mar 9 08:27:54 UTC 2016
Hello Yann, Arnout, All,
On Wednesday 09 March 2016 00:19:23 Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> On 03/08/16 23:10, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
[...]
> > What we could do, however, would be:
> > - in external.mk:
> > BR2_HAS_EXTRA_HELP = YES # Whatever non empty
> >
> > - in the main Makefile:
> > help:
> > blabla our current help
> > $(if $(BR2_HAS_EXTRA_HELP),echo " - local-help to get
> > local help blabla)>
> > which would be IMHO much much nicer and much much simpler...
>
> I don't see the advantage of that, to be honest... The point is to
> append it to the main help. You expect just a few lines of extra help
> text.
I agree with Arnout.
I add that EXTRA_HELP is generic enough to implement Yann's idea if
necessary. Instead of supporting BR2_HAS_EXTRA_HELP, just add in
external.mk:
EXTRA_HELP = "- local-help to get local help blabla"
local-help:
@echo "..."
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Jérôme Pouiller, Sysmic
Embedded Linux specialist
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