documentation for make targets

[Jeffrey Williams]

Thanks Chuck,

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

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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