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| author | Stephan Hoffmann <sho@relinux.de> | 2012-04-06 18:44:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> | 2012-04-07 19:38:44 +0200 |
| commit | 040f6a325f7b62c178fb6d17480adbae4e42e745 (patch) | |
| tree | 3340af197c5d1a5dae79d2d090a786a0d97a8b24 /docs/manual | |
| parent | 5ee4614c4e72dfab4e8f36186fc8ef4ab05fb9a9 (diff) | |
Add documentation for <pkg>-rebuild and <pkg>-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 <sho@reLinux.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/rebuilding-packages.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/rebuilding-packages.txt b/docs/manual/rebuilding-packages.txt index 9a41a88ac..f247dd04f 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 +<package>-reconfigure and <package>-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 |