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Peter Foley
df68a01014 Documentation: use subdir-y to avoid unnecessary built-in.o files
Change the Documentation makefiles from obj-m to subdir-y
to avoid generating unnecessary built-in.o files since nothing
in Documentation/ is ever linked in to vmlinux.

Signed-off-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@pefoley.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-09-26 11:02:55 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
3794f3e812 docsrc: build Documentation/ sources
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.
However, this symbol depends on HEADERS_CHECK since the header files need
to be installed (for userspace builds).

Built (using cross-tools) for x86-64, i386, alpha, ia64, sparc32,
sparc64, powerpc, sh, m68k, & mips.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-12 16:07:30 -07:00