Commit 040f6a32 authored by Stephan Hoffmann's avatar Stephan Hoffmann Committed by Peter Korsgaard
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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: default avatarStephan Hoffmann <sho@reLinux.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
parent 5ee4614c

Makefile

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@@ -654,6 +654,8 @@ help: 
	@echo

	@echo 'Build:'

	@echo '  all                    - make world'

	@echo '  <package>-rebuild      - force recompile <package>'

	@echo '  <package>-reconfigure  - force reconfigure <package>'

	@echo

	@echo 'Configuration:'

	@echo '  menuconfig             - interactive curses-based configurator'

docs/manual/rebuilding-packages.txt

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@@ -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