From 040f6a325f7b62c178fb6d17480adbae4e42e745 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephan Hoffmann Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 18:44:22 +0200 Subject: 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 --- docs/manual/rebuilding-packages.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') 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 +-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 -- cgit v1.2.3