[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] help: add a way to document targets declared in local.mk/external.mk

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 30-11-15 13:04, J?r?me Pouiller wrote:
> Hello Yann,
> 
> On Sunday 29 November 2015 21:26:50 Yann E. MORIN wrote:
>> J?r?me, All,
>>
>> On 2015-11-18 15:37 +0100, J?r?me Pouiller spake thusly:
[snip]
>> Well, for help from extenal.mk (or local.mk, but I'd arue that would
>> be a bad idea, given that local.mk is supposedly short-lived), there
>> is in my opinion a much better solution.
>>
>> Change the 'help' rule to a double-colon make rule, like so:
>>
>>     help::
>>         echo Current Buildroot help
>>
>> Then you can add as many such rules in as many places you want,
>> especially in external.mk, and the will be appended one after the
>> others.
>
> Nice trick.

 IMHO tricks (nice or not) are no good because they make things more difficult
to understand. Also, we don't currently use the :: construct so I'd prefer to
avoid introducing it.


>> We just have to ensure that our help comes before the external ones,
>> so maybe you'll have to move our help block before inclusion of
>> external.mk...
> 
> I have a slight preference for my proposal since I think it allows a 
> finer control of the way extra help is handled. However, I have no 
> problem to send a new patch using your trick.

 Because of what I wrote above, I also prefer your proposal.


 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
> Regards,
> 


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