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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-08-15 12:50:10 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-08-15 12:50:10 -0700
commit01f0e5cdedea448ea48eaddc1366593126b0fe98 (patch)
tree463c89311ac3b52aeb258324723e92d89ec1672f /Documentation
parente026bcc561071c9895c73058b9cc6823defb7be6 (diff)
parent1880861226c13ddd42c34ddd30c3b502b650fe29 (diff)
Merge tag 'kconfig-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada: - show clearer error messages where pkg-config is needed, but not installed - rename SYMBOL_AUTO to SYMBOL_NO_WRITE to reflect its semantics - create all necessary directories by Kconfig tool itself instead of Makefile - update the .config unconditionally when syncconfig is invoked - use 'include' directive instead of '-include' where include/config/{auto,tristate}.conf is mandatory - do not try to update the .config when running install targets - add .DELETE_ON_ERROR to delete partially updated files - misc cleanups and fixes * tag 'kconfig-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: kconfig: remove P_ENV property type kconfig: remove unused sym_get_env_prop() function kconfig: fix the rule of mainmenu_stmt symbol init/Kconfig: Use short unix-style option instead of --longname Kbuild: Makefile.modbuiltin: include auto.conf and tristate.conf mandatory kbuild: remove auto.conf from prerequisite of phony targets kbuild: do not update config for 'make kernelrelease' kbuild: do not update config when running install targets kbuild: add .DELETE_ON_ERROR special target kbuild: use 'include' directive to load auto.conf from top Makefile kconfig: allow all config targets to write auto.conf if missing kconfig: make syncconfig update .config regardless of sym_change_count kconfig: create directories needed for syncconfig by itself kconfig: remove unneeded directory generation from local*config kconfig: split out useful helpers in confdata.c kconfig: rename file_write_dep and move it to confdata.c kconfig: fix typos in description of "choice" in kconfig-language.txt kconfig: handle format string before calling conf_message_callback() kconfig: rename SYMBOL_AUTO to SYMBOL_NO_WRITE kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/process/changes.rst8
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
index 64e0775a62d4..c54cb7cb9ff4 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ choices:
This defines a choice group and accepts any of the above attributes as
options. A choice can only be of type bool or tristate. If no type is
-specified for a choice, it's type will be determined by the type of
+specified for a choice, its type will be determined by the type of
the first choice element in the group or remain unknown if none of the
choice elements have a type specified, as well.
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ A choice accepts another option "optional", which allows to set the
choice to 'n' and no entry needs to be selected.
If no [symbol] is associated with a choice, then you can not have multiple
definitions of that choice. If a [symbol] is associated to the choice,
-then you may define the same choice (ie. with the same entries) in another
+then you may define the same choice (i.e. with the same entries) in another
place.
comment:
diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index 005d8842a503..7a92a06f90de 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -81,6 +81,14 @@ The build system has, as of 4.13, switched to using thin archives (`ar T`)
rather than incremental linking (`ld -r`) for built-in.a intermediate steps.
This requires binutils 2.20 or newer.
+pkg-config
+----------
+
+The build system, as of 4.18, requires pkg-config to check for installed
+kconfig tools and to determine flags settings for use in
+'make {menu,n,g,x}config'. Previously pkg-config was being used but not
+verified or documented.
+
Flex
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