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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Makefile: enable dochelp run from main make level
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On 10/10/17 17:54, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> 2017-10-11 5:09 GMT+09:00 Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>:
>> On 10/07/2017 05:24 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>>> 2017-10-03 8:44 GMT+09:00 Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>:
>>>> Change to enable dochelp run from main make level to make it easier to
>>>> use it.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> Makefile | 2 +-
>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>>>> index cf007a31d575..f99d1b36c437 100644
>>>> --- a/Makefile
>>>> +++ b/Makefile
>>>> @@ -1454,7 +1454,7 @@ $(help-board-dirs): help-%:
>>>>
>>>> # Documentation targets
>>>> # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> -DOC_TARGETS := xmldocs latexdocs pdfdocs htmldocs epubdocs cleandocs linkcheckdocs
>>>> +DOC_TARGETS := xmldocs latexdocs pdfdocs htmldocs epubdocs cleandocs linkcheckdocs dochelp
>>>> PHONY += $(DOC_TARGETS)
>>>> $(DOC_TARGETS): scripts_basic FORCE
>>>> $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=Documentation $@
>>>> --
>>>> 2.11.0
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The dochelp is invoked from "make help" of the main make level.
>>>
>>> Do you mean "make dochelp" is also necessary?
>>>
>>
>> Right. It is a bit hard to pick out individual help messages from
>> the 'make help' output and it would make it easier to use to enable
>> dochelp.
>>
>> That said, it is your call on whether it would make it cumbersome to
>> support 'make dochlep' and other sub-makefile help targets.
>>
>> I can go either way.
>>
>
> I thought of this.
> The same thing would apply to "make confighelp", "make pkghelp", ...

Yes, especially confighelp. I have to use grep, otherwise there is too
much noise.


--
~Randy

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