Re: [PATCH 1/5] docsrc: build Documentation/ sources

Borislav Petkov
2008-07-29T20:27:33Z

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:05:15PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
>
> Currently source files in the Documentation/ sub-dir can easily bit-rot
> since they are not generally buildable, either because they are hidden
> in text files or because there are no Makefile rules for them.
> This needs to be fixed so that the source files remain usable and good
> examples of code instead of bad examples.
>
> Add the ability to build source files that are in the Documentation/ dir.
> Add to Kconfig as "BUILD_DOCSRC" config symbol.
>
> Use "CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC=1 make ..." to build objects from the
> Documentation/ sources. Or enable BUILD_DOCSRC in the *config system.

How about simply adding another makefile target instead? This is more
intuitive, imho, and complies with the Kbuild conventions so far.
Something like:

make docsrc

similar to 'make help' or 'make pdfdocs' etc.

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Regards/Gruß,
Boris.