Commit 63d8bb39 authored by Thomas De Schampheleire's avatar Thomas De Schampheleire Committed by Peter Korsgaard
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docs/manual: fix minor spelling/grammar mistakes



This commit fixes a few minor spelling or grammar mistakes since the recent
additions to the manual (commits 0b100de2 to
7cbb4766).

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ When the build of a system takes a long time, it is sometimes useful
to be able to understand which packages are the longest to build, to
see if anything can be done to speed up the build. In order to help
such build time analysis, Buildroot collects the build time of each
step of each package, and allows to generate graphs from these data.
step of each package, and allows to generate graphs from this data.

To generate the build time graph after a build, run:

@@ -221,13 +221,13 @@ make graph-build

This will generate a set of files in +output/graphs+ :

* +build.hist-build.pdf+, an histogram of the build time for each
* +build.hist-build.pdf+, a histogram of the build time for each
  package, ordered in the build order.

* +build.hist-duration.pdf+, an histogram of the build time for each
* +build.hist-duration.pdf+, a histogram of the build time for each
  package, ordered by duration (longest first)

* +build.hist-name.pdf+, an histogram of the build time for each
* +build.hist-name.pdf+, a histogram of the build time for each
  package, order by package name.

* +build.pie-packages.pdf+, a pie chart of the build time per package
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@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ can help you understand how to work with Buildroot:

 * When a change to the root filesystem skeleton is made, a full
   rebuild is needed. However, when changes to the root filesystem
   overlay, to a post-build script or a post-image script are made,
   overlay, a post-build script or a post-image script are made,
   there is no need for a full rebuild: a simple +make+ invocation
   will take the changes into account.

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ On the other hand, if you only want to restart the build process of a
package from its compilation step, you can run +make
<package>-rebuild+, followed by +make+ or +make <package>+. It will
restart the compilation and installation of the package, but not from
scratch: it basically simply re-executes +make+ and +make install+
scratch: it basically re-executes +make+ and +make install+
inside the package, so it will only rebuild files that changed.

If you want to restart the build process of a package from its
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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ source code of one package, and be able to quickly rebuild the system
with Buildroot.

Making changes directly in +output/build/<package>-<version>+ is not
appropriate solution, because this directory is removed on +make
an appropriate solution, because this directory is removed on +make
clean+.

Therefore, Buildroot provides a specific mechanism for this use case: