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

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

On 11/22/2016 11:49 AM, ferruh.yigit at intel.com (Ferruh Yigit) wrote:
> 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 at 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.

Hi Thomas,

There is no update on the patch for a long time, updating it as rejected, please
send an updated version if it is still relevant.

For record, patch: https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/17174/