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

Sam Ravnborg
2008-07-30T08:43:32Z

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:27:32PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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.

With the current approach we have much better build coverage.
All "allyesconfig" and "allmodconfig" builds will do the test
builds which is a good think.
If we introduce "make docsrc" then almost only Randy will do the
test builds and report the breakage - which is not good.

Sam