From 040f6a325f7b62c178fb6d17480adbae4e42e745 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephan Hoffmann Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 18:44:22 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add documentation for -rebuild and -reconfigure 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 Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard --- Makefile | 2 ++ docs/manual/rebuilding-packages.txt | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 30099d99de..3a09417ad4 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 9a41a88ac3..f247dd04f8 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 -- 2.30.2