Commit 70681949 authored by Xin Liu's avatar Xin Liu Committed by Andrii Nakryiko
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libbpf: Improve usability of libbpf Makefile 



Current libbpf Makefile does not contain the help command, which
is inconvenient to use. Similar to the Makefile help command of the
perf, a help command is provided to list the commands supported by
libbpf make and the functions of the commands.

Signed-off-by: default avatarXin Liu <liuxin350@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20221202081738.128513-1-liuxin350@huawei.com
parent f16a7aa5

tools/lib/bpf/Makefile

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# Delete partially updated (corrupted) files on error

.DELETE_ON_ERROR:



help:

	@echo 'libbpf common targets:'

	@echo '  HINT: use "V=1" to enable verbose build'

	@echo '  all     - build libraries and pkgconfig'

	@echo '  clean   - remove all generated files'

	@echo '  check   - check abi and version info'

	@echo ''

	@echo 'libbpf install targets:'

	@echo '  HINT: use "prefix"(defaults to "/usr/local") or "DESTDIR" (defaults to "/")'

	@echo '        to adjust target desitantion, e.g. "make prefix=/usr/local install"'

	@echo '  install          - build and install all headers, libraries and pkgconfig'

	@echo '  install_headers  - install only headers to include/bpf'

	@echo ''

	@echo 'libbpf make targets:'

	@echo '  tags    - use ctags to make tag information for source code browsing'

	@echo '  cscope  - use cscope to make interactive source code browsing database'