[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 05/11] manual: add make-tips.txt

Samuel Martin s.martin49 at gmail.com
Sun May 13 10:38:15 UTC 2012


From: Samuel MARTIN <s.martin49 at gmail.com>


Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49 at gmail.com>

 create mode 100644 docs/manual/make-tips.txt

diff --git a/docs/manual/make-tips.txt b/docs/manual/make-tips.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a512689
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/manual/make-tips.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+[[make-tips]]
+'make' tips
+-----------
+
+Because Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches, there are few
+things useful to know, such as:
+
+Display all command executed by make:
+
+--------------------
+ $ make V=0|1 <target>
+--------------------
+
+Display all available targets:
+
+--------------------
+ $ make help
+--------------------
+
+Note that, some settings in the +.config+ file may hide some targets
+like:
+
+* +busybox-menuconfig+ depends whether +busybox+ is enabled or not in
+  the +Package selection+ menu
+* +linux-menuconfig+ and +linux-savedefconfig+ depends on whether
+  +linux+ is enabled or not
+* +uclibc-menuconfig+ depends on whether the toolchain uses the
+  Buildroot internal toolchain backend or not
+* +ctng-menuconfig+ depends on whether the toolchain uses the
+  crosstool-NG backend or not
+* +barebox-menuconfig+ and +barebox-savedefconfig+ depends on whether
+  +barebox+ bootloader is enabled or not
+
+Delete all build products (including build directories, host, staging
+and target trees, the images and the toolchain):
+
+--------------------
+ $ make clean
+--------------------
+
+Delete all build products as well as the configuration:
+
+--------------------
+ $ make distclean
+--------------------
+
+Note that if +ccache+ is enabled, running +make clean|distclean+ does
+not empty the Buildroot's cache. To delete it, refer to xref:ccache[].
diff --git a/docs/manual/working-with.txt b/docs/manual/working-with.txt
index e444204..01f1041 100644
--- a/docs/manual/working-with.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/working-with.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ Working with Buildroot
 ======================
 [[working-with-br]]
 
+include::make-tips.txt[]
+
 include::customize.txt[]
 
 include::common-usage.txt[]
-- 
1.7.10.2



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