From: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ./Makefile: consider PAGER for `make help'
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:05:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gh3630mk2o.fsf@gouders.net> (raw)
`make help' outputs more than a screenfull of lines.
In case a user has PAGER defined in his environment, she most likely
wants it to be used in such situations.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
---
Makefile | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 992d24467ca0..ce1b7e83a4c8 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1531,7 +1531,14 @@ board-dirs := $(dir $(wildcard $(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/configs/*/*_defconfig)
board-dirs := $(sort $(notdir $(board-dirs:/=)))
PHONY += help
+ifdef PAGER
+PHONY += _help
help:
+ $(Q)$(MAKE) _help | $(PAGER)
+_help:
+else
+help:
+endif
@echo 'Cleaning targets:'
@echo ' clean - Remove most generated files but keep the config and'
@echo ' enough build support to build external modules'
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