Re: make cleandocs issue: rm -rf /output when obj not defined

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On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 01:53:30PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 7/25/21 1:11 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > pioneer695 <pioneer695@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> >> In an attempt to get some readable documentation I cloned the git repository
> >> to check how the PDF format is.
> >>
> >> Entered Documentation and proceeded with:
> >>
> >> 	make pdfdocs
> 
> Hi,
> I'm curious about this part above. Are you saying that you did:
> 
> cd Documentation
> make pdfdocs
> 
> I've never tried that and don't expect it to be done that way.
> 
> I do (from the top of the kernel source tree):
> 
> make pdfdocs
> or
> make htmldocs
> 
> with no problems, other than I may not have all of the latex
> tools installed.

Perhaps we should rename Documentation/Makefile to Documentation/Kbuild
to prevent this confusion?



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