documentation for make targets

[Robert Watson]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Jeffrey Williams wrote:

> But I got those, sorry I should have been more clear, the ones I want to see 
> documentation on are the ones less commonly used like:
>
> buildenv
> check-old
> checkdpadd
> distribute
> distributeworld
> distrib-dirs
> distribution
> hierarchy
> regress
> release
> rerelease

At lease 'release' is described in release(9).  The others appear to be less 
documented.  build(9) would be a good place to put them, however.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge

>
> for instance "make distribution" is used in setting up jails (per the jail 
> man page), but no where can I find a description of what it actually does, I 
> tried following it through the make file chain but wasn't able to quickly 
> determine what exactly it does.  In must be something exclusive of "make 
> world", because it follows that command in the jail setup instructions.
>
> By the I have tried google, handbook, mailing list, and faq for these but the 
> most I have been able to find are rote use of these in howto's, like the 
> "make distribution" example above, but no descriptions of what they do.
>
> Thanks
> Jeff
>
> Chuck Swiger wrote:
>> On Jan 10, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Jeffrey Williams wrote:
>>> Can someone point to documentation for all the make targets in used in the 
>>> /usr/src/Makefile.  I am not looking for full documentation of each 
>>> target, once I narrow down what targets I want I can get what need by 
>>> walking the make files, but what I am looking for is a document that has a 
>>> brief (short paragraph) of for each make target, describing its general 
>>> purpose/function.
>> 
>> You could start with "head -18 /usr/src/Makefile"...
>> 
>> ---Chuck
>> 
>> 
>> 
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