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

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 11/22/2016 9:38 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 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 ?

To keep existing targets, in case somebody use them.

> It is not compatible with the old behaviour, so I'm afraid it would be
> confusing for no real benefit.

Right, not fully compatible, but still can do:
make examples / make examples_clean
make examples T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc

Overall, if you believe keeping them is confusing, I am OK with it, just
may need to update doc/build-sdk-quick.txt to fix "make help" output.

Thanks,
ferruh