From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10615 invoked by alias); 28 Dec 2002 12:11:50 -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 10594 invoked from network); 28 Dec 2002 12:11:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO brown.csi.cam.ac.uk) (131.111.8.14) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 28 Dec 2002 12:11:48 -0000 Received: from student.cusu.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.179.82] helo=kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk ident=mail) by brown.csi.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18SFoW-0007HU-00; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 12:11:36 +0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18SFoW-0002cs-00; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 12:11:36 +0000 Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 04:11:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" X-X-Sender: To: Nathanael Nerode cc: , , Subject: Re: Documenting partial builds (Was Re: ^c now disallowed?) In-Reply-To: <20021228040534.GA3190@doctormoo> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00326.txt.bz2 On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > 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? The old toplevel is documented in etc/configure.texi in src, which is where the GCC internals manual (sourcebuild.texi) currently links to for documentation of toplevel. -- Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk