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| -rw-r--r-- | dev/doc/build-system.txt | 29 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/dev/doc/build-system.txt b/dev/doc/build-system.txt index c79a561542..516664720c 100644 --- a/dev/doc/build-system.txt +++ b/dev/doc/build-system.txt @@ -123,13 +123,27 @@ Exceptions are: RECTYPESML in Makefile.common. If it is a .ml4 file, implement RECTYPESML4 or '(*i ocamlflags i*)'; see TODO. -New PHONY targets ------------------ + - the file needs a specific Makefile entry; add it to Makefile.build -If you want to add a new PHONY target to the build system, that is a -target that is not the name of the file it creates, then: + - the files produced from the added file do not match an existing + pattern or entry in "Makefile". (All the common cases of + .ml{,i,l,y,4}, .v, .c, ... files that produces (respectively) + .cm[iox], .vo, .glob, .o, ... files with the same basename are + already covered.) In this case, see section "New targets". - - add its rule to Makefile.build +New targets +----------- + +If you want to add: + + - a new PHONY target to the build system, that is a target that is + not the name of the file it creates, + + - a normal target is not already mapped to a stage by "Makefile" + + then: + + - add the necessary rule to Makefile.build, if any - add the target to STAGEn_TARGETS, with n being the smallest stage it can be built at, that is: * 1 for OCaml code that doesn't use any Coq camlp4 grammar extension @@ -138,6 +152,11 @@ target that is not the name of the file it creates, then: does. * 3 for Coq (.v) code. + *or* + + add a pattern matching the target to the pattern lists for the + smallest stage it can be built at in "Makefile". + TODO ---- |