From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17734 invoked by alias); 28 Dec 2002 04:07:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 17715 invoked from network); 28 Dec 2002 04:07:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout6-0.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.125) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 28 Dec 2002 04:07:04 -0000 Received: from doctormoo (syr-24-24-16-193.twcny.rr.com [24.24.16.193]) by mailout6-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/RoadRunner 1.20) with ESMTP id gBS46ok01245; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 23:06:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from neroden by doctormoo with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18S8EA-0000pV-00; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 23:05:34 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 20:07:00 -0000 To: binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Documenting partial builds (Was Re: ^c now disallowed?) Message-ID: <20021228040534.GA3190@doctormoo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Nathanael Nerode X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00324.txt.bz2 DJ said: >I think a better solution to support is documenting how to do a >partial configure/build without needing the ctrl-c. So that you'd >just say "make all-this all-that" and know that it's doing the right >minimal set of rules. Now that I've autoconfiscated the top level, this is my next project. (I'll get back to cleaning up the top level, but I'll do this first.) The big question is, *where* should this be documented? I can document the toplevel Makefile interface quite clearly, but I'm very unsure where to put said documentation; should I duplicate it in the docs for each package (and if so, where in those docs)? Put it in some special location? What? --Nathanael