docsrc: build Documentation/ sources

Currently source files in the Documentation/ sub-dir can easily bit-rot
since they are not generally buildable, either because they are hidden in
text files or because there are no Makefile rules for them.  This needs to
be fixed so that the source files remain usable and good examples of code
instead of bad examples.

Add the ability to build source files that are in the Documentation/ dir.
Add to Kconfig as "BUILD_DOCSRC" config symbol.

Use "CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC=1 make ..." to build objects from the
Documentation/ sources.  Or enable BUILD_DOCSRC in the *config system.
However, this symbol depends on HEADERS_CHECK since the header files need
to be installed (for userspace builds).

Built (using cross-tools) for x86-64, i386, alpha, ia64, sparc32,
sparc64, powerpc, sh, m68k, & mips.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f3e206509ee1..fd3ca6e8188a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -822,6 +822,9 @@ endif
 ifdef CONFIG_SAMPLES
         $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=samples
 endif
+ifdef CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC
+        $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=Documentation
+endif
         $(call vmlinux-modpost)
         $(call if_changed_rule,vmlinux__)
         $(Q)rm -f .old_version
@@ -1166,7 +1169,7 @@ MRPROPER_FILES += .config .config.old include/asm .version .old_version \
 #
 clean: rm-dirs  := $(CLEAN_DIRS)
 clean: rm-files := $(CLEAN_FILES)
-clean-dirs      := $(addprefix _clean_,$(srctree) $(vmlinux-alldirs))
+clean-dirs      := $(addprefix _clean_,$(srctree) $(vmlinux-alldirs) Documentation)
 
 PHONY += $(clean-dirs) clean archclean
 $(clean-dirs):