* [PATCH] make help: add tools help target
@ 2017-04-20 17:39 Randy Dunlap
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From: Randy Dunlap @ 2017-04-20 17:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML, Linus Torvalds; +Cc: Andrew Morton
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Add a top-level Makefile help target for Userspace tools.
Also make each help "heading" end with a colon ':'.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
Makefile | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
One of my pain points.
--- lnx-411-rc7.orig/Makefile
+++ lnx-411-rc7/Makefile
@@ -1374,7 +1374,7 @@ help:
@echo ' headers_install - Install sanitised kernel headers to INSTALL_HDR_PATH'; \
echo ' (default: $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH))'; \
echo ''
- @echo 'Static analysers'
+ @echo 'Static analysers:'
@echo ' checkstack - Generate a list of stack hogs'
@echo ' namespacecheck - Name space analysis on compiled kernel'
@echo ' versioncheck - Sanity check on version.h usage'
@@ -1384,7 +1384,7 @@ help:
@echo ' headerdep - Detect inclusion cycles in headers'
@$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.help checker-help
@echo ''
- @echo 'Kernel selftest'
+ @echo 'Kernel selftest:'
@echo ' kselftest - Build and run kernel selftest (run as root)'
@echo ' Build, install, and boot kernel before'
@echo ' running kselftest on it'
@@ -1392,6 +1392,10 @@ help:
@echo ' kselftest-merge - Merge all the config dependencies of kselftest to existed'
@echo ' .config.'
@echo ''
+ @echo 'Userspace tools targets:'
+ @echo ' use "make tools/help"'
+ @echo ' or "cd tools; make help"'
+ @echo ''
@echo 'Kernel packaging:'
@$(MAKE) $(build)=$(package-dir) help
@echo ''
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