Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mk: remove make target for examples

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>]

2016-11-22 00:34, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 11/21/2016 11:47 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > The command
> >   make examples
> > works only if target directories have the exact name of configs.
> > 
> > It is more flexible to use
> >   make -C examples RTE_SDK=$(pwd) RTE_TARGET=build
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
> 
> Instead of removing examples & examples_clean targets, what do you think
> keeping them as wrapper to suggested usage, for backward compatibility.
> 
> Something like:
> "
> BUILDING_RTE_SDK :=
> export BUILDING_RTE_SDK
> 
> # Build directory is given with O=
> O ?= $(RTE_SDK)/examples
> 
> # Target for which examples should be built.
> T ?= build
> 
> .PHONY: examples
> examples:
>         @echo ================== Build examples for $(T)
>         $(MAKE) -C examples O=$(abspath $(O)) RTE_TARGET=$(T);
> 
> .PHONY: examples_clean
> examples_clean:
>         @echo ================== Clean examples for $(T)
>         $(MAKE) -C examples O=$(abspath $(O)) RTE_TARGET=$(T) clean;
> "

What is the benefit of this makefile? Just remove -C ?
It is not compatible with the old behaviour, so I'm afraid it would be
confusing for no real benefit.