From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from conssluserg-04.nifty.com ([210.131.2.83]:31880 "EHLO conssluserg-04.nifty.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932685AbdJKAzX (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:55:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <95c3c8fb-83b3-5d92-f5cc-4cc1cca2913f@osg.samsung.com> References: <20171002234421.20254-1-shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> <20171002234421.20254-3-shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> <95c3c8fb-83b3-5d92-f5cc-4cc1cca2913f@osg.samsung.com> From: Masahiro Yamada Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 09:54:33 +0900 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: enable dochelp run from main make level Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Shuah Khan Cc: Michal Marek , Jonathan Corbet , Linux Kbuild mailing list , Linux Kernel Mailing List 2017-10-11 5:09 GMT+09:00 Shuah Khan : > On 10/07/2017 05:24 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote: >> 2017-10-03 8:44 GMT+09:00 Shuah Khan : >>> Change to enable dochelp run from main make level to make it easier to >>> use it. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan >>> --- >>> 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", ... -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada