[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/8] core/pkg-utils: add a macro to pretty-print a help entry
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Thu Mar 10 20:24:20 UTC 2016
Arnout, All,
On 2016-03-10 00:37 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 03/09/16 23:22, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> >To ensure that all the help entries we display are all formatted the
> >same, we currently indent the help texts manually.
> >
> >Also, when a br2-external tree wants to display local custom help, they
> >have to rely on a hard-coded layout (if they want to match our iwn
> >output, which is not mandatory).
> >
> >Add a macro to pretty-print make rules in the help texts.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> >Cc: Jérôme Pouiller <jezz at sysmic.org>
> >Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>
> >Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> >---
> > package/pkg-utils.mk | 13 +++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> >
> >diff --git a/package/pkg-utils.mk b/package/pkg-utils.mk
> >index f88313a..873dbec 100644
> >--- a/package/pkg-utils.mk
> >+++ b/package/pkg-utils.mk
> >@@ -104,6 +104,19 @@ define sep
> >
> > endef
> >
> >+# Pretty-print a make rule in the help text
> >+#
> >+# $(1): a list of double- or single-quoted string representing the rule
> >+# and their help text, formatted as: "action : help for action"
> >+# 'action' should be less than 22 characters, otherwise the help
> >+# text will not be correctly indented.
> >+#
> >+define HELP_RULE
>
> Most of our functions are lowercase. Perhaps print-help?
Done, thanks! :-)
> If we don't have the help-local indirection but directly do it in the
> top-level help, then there's no need for an additional function.
Well... You know what I think about mixing both help.. ;-] So this is a
function so that it can be used by help-custom (hint, that's the new
name I have for it here! ;-) ).
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
> Regards,
> Arnout
>
> >+ for h in $(1); do \
> >+ printf " %-22s - %s\n" "$${h%% : *}" "$${h#* : }"; \
> >+ done
> >+endef
> >+
> > # check-deprecated-variable -- throw an error on deprecated variables
> > # example:
> > # $(eval $(call check-deprecated-variable,FOO_MAKE_OPT,FOO_MAKE_OPTS))
> >
>
>
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