Fedora adds a directory to its source git tree to provide packaging information[1] specific for its distro. We would like to propagate our 'help' section to the toplevel to be seen by 'make help' as it isn't obvious to users to use 'make dist-help'[2]. Instead of keeping Fedora changes local, I am proposing a generic mechanism for other distros to use if they would like. The change looks for a distro directory and leverages that Makefile if it exists. Otherwise it is ignored. [1] - https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/tree/os-build/redhat [2] - https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/blob/os-build/redhat/Makefile#L809 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> ---- This patch is more of a conversation starter than anything. I think other distros might find this useful and examples of what we would populate the directory with can be found in [1]. Thoughts? --- Makefile | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 6f846b1f2618f..45fdb18dde46f 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1635,6 +1635,16 @@ distclean: mrproper %pkg: include/config/kernel.release FORCE $(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.package $@ +# Distribution of the kernel +# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +dist%: FORCE + @if ! test -f $(srctree)/distro/Makefile; then \ + echo 'No distribution targets defined'; \ + exit 1; \ + fi + $(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(srctree)/distro $@ + # Brief documentation of the typical targets used # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -1732,6 +1742,11 @@ help: @echo '' @echo 'Kernel packaging:' @$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.package help + @if test -f $(srctree)/distro/Makefile; then \ + echo ''; \ + echo 'Distro targets:'; \ + $(MAKE) -C $(srctree)/distro dist-help; \ + fi @echo '' @echo 'Documentation targets:' @$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/Documentation/Makefile dochelp -- 2.38.1
