Re: make help ARCH=xx fun

[Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 08:00:49PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm.  Would something (untested) like the following be horribly
> > wrong/bad?
> > 
> > define archhelp
> >         @echo '  zImage           - Compressed kernel image (arch/sh/boot/zImage)'
> > 	@if [ -d arch/$(ARCH)/configs/SCCS ]; then bk get -q arch/$(ARCH)/configs/;fi
> > # Assume board_defconfig
> > 	for board in arch/$(ARCH)/configs/*defconfig; \
> >         do \
> >                  echo -n ' ' $$board | sed -e 's|arch/$(ARCH)/configs/||g' ; \
> >                  echo -n '        - Build for ' ; \
> >                  echo -e $$board | sed -e 's|.*_||g'; \
> >         done
> > endef
> 
> I do not want kbuild to be cluttered with bk specific stuff.

I can understand that.  How about:
for board in arch/$(ARCH)/configs/*defconfig; \
 do \
   if [ -f $board ]; then
    ...
   fi
 done

> Also the "- Build for xxxxx" is not good enough.

Erm, it's usually something descriptive enough, if one is firmiliar with
the platform / what's intended to build.

> I will try to come up with a patch the uses a file named
> arch/$(ARCH)/configs/index.txt

The 'issue' with configs/index.txt, I'll wager, is that for every new
board, that's one more file to modify (and thus possibly conflict on).

-- 
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/