[PATCH] libctf: merge doc subdir up a level

Nick Alcock nick.alcock@oracle.com
Wed Dec 1 16:53:58 GMT 2021


On 1 Dec 2021, Nick Clifton via Binutils said:

> Hi Mike,
>
>> This avoids a recursive make into the doc subdir and speeds up the
>> build slightly.  It also allows for more parallelism.
>
> Will this have the same problems as the change for the bfd directory's documentation ?

I just copied the bfd directory's documentation framework, so I would
expect at least some problems to be shared with it. (However, we're not
using chew here -- at least, not yet -- so chew-associated problems
would not be expected.)

>>   libctf/Makefile.am                   |  15 +-
>>   libctf/Makefile.in                   | 583 ++++++++++++-------
>>   libctf/configure.ac                  |   2 +-
>>   libctf/doc/Makefile.in               | 808 ---------------------------
>>   libctf/doc/{Makefile.am => local.mk} |  16 +-
>>   5 files changed, 410 insertions(+), 1014 deletions(-)
>>   delete mode 100644 libctf/doc/Makefile.in
>>   rename libctf/doc/{Makefile.am => local.mk} (71%)
>
> If not then approved - please apply.

Looks good to me too -- less build-system noise and faster, good all
round (assuming it works :) ).


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