Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Makefile: Rename the 'vm-test' target as 'vm-help'

[Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 01:03:28PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> On 5/31/19 9:38 AM, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 08:43:41AM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> >> We already have 'make check-help', use the 'make vm-help' form
> >> to display helps about VM testing. Keep the old target to not
> >> bother old customs.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >> Based-on: <20190530101603.22254-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> >>           "testing/next queue"
> >> ---
> >>  Makefile                  | 4 ++--
> >>  docs/devel/testing.rst    | 4 ++--
> >>  tests/vm/Makefile.include | 5 +++--
> >>  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> >> index f0be624f47..f67739df7c 100644
> >> --- a/Makefile
> >> +++ b/Makefile
> >> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SRC_PATH=.
> >>  UNCHECKED_GOALS := %clean TAGS cscope ctags dist \
> >>      html info pdf txt \
> >>      help check-help print-% \
> >> -    docker docker-% vm-test vm-build-%
> >> +    docker docker-% vm-help vm-test vm-build-%
> >>  
> >>  print-%:
> >>  	@echo '$*=$($*)'
> >> @@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ endif
> >>  	@echo  'Test targets:'
> >>  	@echo  '  check           - Run all tests (check-help for details)'
> >>  	@echo  '  docker          - Help about targets running tests inside Docker containers'
> >> -	@echo  '  vm-test         - Help about targets running tests inside VM'
> >> +	@echo  '  vm-help         - Help about targets running tests inside VM'
> >>  	@echo  ''
> >>  	@echo  'Documentation targets:'
> >>  	@echo  '  html info pdf txt'
> >> diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst
> >> index da2d0fc964..68aba3926e 100644
> >> --- a/docs/devel/testing.rst
> >> +++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst
> >> @@ -399,12 +399,12 @@ VM testing
> >>  
> >>  This test suite contains scripts that bootstrap various guest images that have
> >>  necessary packages to build QEMU. The basic usage is documented in ``Makefile``
> >> -help which is displayed with ``make vm-test``.
> >> +help which is displayed with ``make vm-help``.
> >>  
> >>  Quickstart
> >>  ----------
> >>  
> >> -Run ``make vm-test`` to list available make targets. Invoke a specific make
> >> +Run ``make vm-help`` to list available make targets. Invoke a specific make
> >>  command to run build test in an image. For example, ``make vm-build-freebsd``
> >>  will build the source tree in the FreeBSD image. The command can be executed
> >>  from either the source tree or the build dir; if the former, ``./configure`` is
> >> diff --git a/tests/vm/Makefile.include b/tests/vm/Makefile.include
> >> index 5e37063d32..b7311d7bd9 100644
> >> --- a/tests/vm/Makefile.include
> >> +++ b/tests/vm/Makefile.include
> >> @@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ IMAGE_FILES := $(patsubst %, $(IMAGES_DIR)/%.img, $(IMAGES))
> >>  
> >>  .PRECIOUS: $(IMAGE_FILES)
> >>  
> >> -vm-test:
> >> -	@echo "vm-test: Test QEMU in preconfigured virtual machines"
> > 
> > What about adding something like this?
> > vm-test: vm-help
> > 	@echo ""
> > 	@echo "vm-test is deprecated, please use vm-help"
> 
> I wouldn't worry about deprecation warnings for dev tools, it would be
> just noise :)

Make sense :)

Cheers,
Stefano