[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] help: add a way to document targets declared in local.mk/external.mk

[Yann E. MORIN]

Thomas, All,

On 2016-03-08 23:13 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 23:10:49 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > This definitely does not look nice to me... :-(
> > 
> > What we could do, however, would be:
> > 
> >   - in external.mk:
> >         BR2_HAS_EXTRA_HELP = YES  # Whatever non empty
> > 
> >   - in the main Makefile:
> > 
> >         help:
> >             blabla our current help
> >             $(if $(BR2_HAS_EXTRA_HELP),echo "  - local-help  to get local help blabla)
> > 
> > which would be IMHO much much nicer and much much simpler...
> 
> But it doesn't allow PATCH 2/2.

Indeed, it does not, but I'll reply with an alternate proposal...

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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