From patchwork Fri Apr 6 16:44:22 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Add documentation for -rebuild and -reconfigure From: Stephan Hoffmann X-Patchwork-Id: 151213 Message-Id: <1333730662-21942-1-git-send-email-sho@relinux.de> To: buildroot@busybox.net Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 18:44:22 +0200 Since these two special make targets are very useful but not yet mentioned in the documentation I added them to the make help and the manual. Signed-off-by: Stephan Hoffmann --- Makefile | 2 ++ docs/manual/rebuilding-packages.txt | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 30099d9..3a09417 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -654,6 +654,8 @@ help: @echo @echo 'Build:' @echo ' all - make world' + @echo ' -rebuild - force recompile ' + @echo ' -reconfigure - force reconfigure ' @echo @echo 'Configuration:' @echo ' menuconfig - interactive curses-based configurator' diff --git a/docs/manual/rebuilding-packages.txt b/docs/manual/rebuilding-packages.txt index 9a41a88..f247dd0 100644 --- a/docs/manual/rebuilding-packages.txt +++ b/docs/manual/rebuilding-packages.txt @@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ The easiest way to rebuild a single package from scratch is to remove its build directory in +output/build+. Buildroot will then re-extract, re-configure, re-compile and re-install this package from scratch. +For convenience, most packages support the special make targets +-reconfigure and -rebuild to repeat the configure +and build steps. + However, if you don't want to rebuild the package completely from scratch, a better understanding of the Buildroot internals is needed. Internally, to keep track of which steps have been done and