Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Sep 1999 13:28:58 -0500 (CDT) | From | Ed Grimm <> | Subject | Re: [patch] kernel API documentation system |
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On 26 Sep 1999, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes: > > Jeff> The current "make apidocs" command creates > Jeff> Documentation/kernel-api.html, containing all documentation. > Jeff> Eventually this system should generate individual man pages, one > Jeff> per kernel API function, in addition to the existing > Jeff> kernel-api.html file. > > Putting auto generated documents in the same directory as the static > ones is a bad idea imho. It makes it hard for people to keep track of > what can be deleted and what cannot.
Wouldn't the fact that 'make clean' removes it be good enough? How about adding a Documentation/Makefile, which also has a make clean to get rid of them?
That is, use the same mechanism that many packages that use yacc or other C code generators use to specify which files can and cannot be removed.
Ed Grimm
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