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Commit 39e6e9cf authored by Bryce Harrington's avatar Bryce Harrington Committed by Sam Ravnborg
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kbuild: fix for some typos in Documentation/makefiles.txt 



I noticed a few typos while reading makefiles.txt to learn about the
kbuild system.  Attached is a patch against 2.6.18 to fix them.
Remove trailing whitespace while we are there..

Signed-off-by: default avatarBryce Harrington <bryce@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
parent 1c7bafe7

Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt

+43 −40
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@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ Both possibilities are described in the following. 


--- 4.7 Using hostprogs-$(CONFIG_FOO)



	A typcal pattern in a Kbuild file looks like this:

	A typical pattern in a Kbuild file looks like this:



	Example:

		#scripts/Makefile
@@ -682,7 +682,8 @@ When executing "make clean", the two files "devlist.h classlist.h" will 
be deleted. Kbuild will assume files to be in same relative directory as the

Makefile except if an absolute path is specified (path starting with '/').



To delete a directory hirachy use:

To delete a directory hierarchy use:



	Example:

		#scripts/package/Makefile

		clean-dirs := $(objtree)/debian/
@@ -926,7 +927,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): 
		#arch/i386/Makefile

		define archhelp

		  echo  '* bzImage      - Image (arch/$(ARCH)/boot/bzImage)'

		endef

		endif



	When make is executed without arguments, the first goal encountered

	will be built. In the top level Makefile the first goal present
@@ -1070,7 +1071,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): 
		#Makefile

		export CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds += -P -C -U$(ARCH)



	The assigment to $(always) is used to tell kbuild to build the

	The assignment to $(always) is used to tell kbuild to build the

	target vmlinux.lds.

	The assignment to $(CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds) tells kbuild to use the

	specified options when building the target vmlinux.lds.
@@ -1180,3 +1181,5 @@ Language QA by Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> 
- Generating offset header files.

- Add more variables to section 7?