[Buildroot] [PATCH] stress: disable documentation

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
> On 24/10/13 09:10, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
>>> +# Also, disable documentation by undefining makeinfo
>>>   STRESS_CONF_OPT = \
>>> -       $(if $(BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB),,--disable-static)
>>> +       $(if $(BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB),,--disable-static) \
>>> +       MAKEINFO=:
>>
>>
>> What is the significance of this colon?
>
>
>  It's just an empty command. I could have used 'true' as well. In practice,
> they're the same. However, POSIX defines 'true' to take no arguments, while
> ':' ignores its arguments, so ':' is more pedantically correct.

This is new to me, thanks!

Best regards,
Thomas