Re: [GIT PULL] nolibc changes for v5.19

[Willy Tarreau]

On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 02:13:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
(...)
> Does it work? No.
> 
> > work the same on all commands but actually:
> >
> >    make -C tools/ nolibc_headers
> 
> Put another way: where did you find that "nolibc_headers"?
> 
> THAT is what I'm talking about. You are mentioning all these magical
> things that don't match the documentation you yourself added.

OK thanks so now at least I have all the elements I was looking for,
I'm on it and will shortly provide fixes (in short, the main makefile's
variables not being set when doing make -C tools/ requires that some of
them are set as well under the target makefile).

For the second one I totally agree and as I said I think the problem
is wider, so I'll likely add a suggestion in tools/Makefile to also
try "make -C tools/ foo_help", which will allow different sub-projects
to provide a help target that enumerates their respective commands.
We'll start with nolibc and others could then follow, because clearly
for several other ones it's not obvious either and I think the lack
of standard way to display a tool's help doesn't help here.

thanks,
Willy