linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Makefile: enable dochelp run from main make level

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 10 Oct 2017 19:06:05 -0600
From:   Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: enable dochelp run from main make level

On 10/10/2017 06:58 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 10/10/17 17:54, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> 2017-10-11 5:09 GMT+09:00 Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>:
>>> On 10/07/2017 05:24 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>>>> 2017-10-03 8:44 GMT+09:00 Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>:
>>>>> Change to enable dochelp run from main make level to make it easier to
>>>>> use it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  Makefile | 2 +-
>>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>>>>> index cf007a31d575..f99d1b36c437 100644
>>>>> --- a/Makefile
>>>>> +++ b/Makefile
>>>>> @@ -1454,7 +1454,7 @@ $(help-board-dirs): help-%:
>>>>>
>>>>>  # Documentation targets
>>>>>  # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> -DOC_TARGETS := xmldocs latexdocs pdfdocs htmldocs epubdocs cleandocs linkcheckdocs
>>>>> +DOC_TARGETS := xmldocs latexdocs pdfdocs htmldocs epubdocs cleandocs linkcheckdocs dochelp
>>>>>  PHONY += $(DOC_TARGETS)
>>>>>  $(DOC_TARGETS): scripts_basic FORCE
>>>>>         $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=Documentation $@
>>>>> --
>>>>> 2.11.0
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The dochelp is invoked from "make help" of the main make level.
>>>>
>>>> Do you mean "make dochelp" is also necessary?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Right. It is a bit hard to pick out individual help messages from
>>> the 'make help' output and it would make it easier to use to enable
>>> dochelp.
>>>
>>> That said, it is your call on whether it would make it cumbersome to
>>> support 'make dochlep' and other sub-makefile help targets.
>>>
>>> I can go either way.
>>>
>>
>> I thought of this.
>> The same thing would apply to "make confighelp", "make pkghelp", ...
> 
> Yes, especially confighelp.  I have to use grep, otherwise there is too
> much noise.
> 
> 

If you would like I can send patches to cover some of these cases.

thanks,
-- Shuah