[Buildroot] [PATCH 04/15] package: add <pkg>-rebuild and <pkg>-reconfigure

[Stephan Hoffmann]

Hello all,

since I needed some time to find out this feature I submit this small
patch for the documentation
("make help" and manual)

Hope it helps other newbies:-)

Kind regards

Stephan


>From 3f8c5231d8773b00ae513859e0fa39c9986342f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephan Hoffmann <sho at relinux.de>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 10:23:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Package: add documentation for rebuild et. al.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Hoffmann <sho at relinux.de>

---
 Makefile                            |    2 ++
 docs/manual/rebuilding-packages.txt |    3 +++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 80ca587..c05bf3f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -639,6 +639,8 @@ 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'
diff --git a/docs/manual/rebuilding-packages.txt
b/docs/manual/rebuilding-packages.txt
index 9a41a88..910afa8 100644
--- a/docs/manual/rebuilding-packages.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/rebuilding-packages.txt
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ files are relevant:
   Buildroot will trigger the recompilation of the package from the
   compilation step (execution of +make+).
 
+The special make targets <package>-reconfigure and <package>-rebuild
+can be used to automate this.
+
 For other packages, an analysis of the specific 'package.mk' file is
 needed. For example, the zlib Makefile used to look like this (before
 it was converted to the generic package infrastructure):
-- 
1.7.0.4

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