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diff --git a/doc/sphinx/practical-tools/utilities.rst b/doc/sphinx/practical-tools/utilities.rst index 748701ac75..5d36ec3cf9 100644 --- a/doc/sphinx/practical-tools/utilities.rst +++ b/doc/sphinx/practical-tools/utilities.rst @@ -133,10 +133,13 @@ The recommended approach is to invoke ``CoqMakefile`` from a standard @true The advantage of a wrapper, compared to directly calling the generated -``Makefile`` or to including it with an include directive, is that it +``Makefile``, is that it provides a target independent of the version of Coq to regenerate a ``Makefile`` specific to the current version of Coq. Additionally, the master ``Makefile`` can be extended with targets not specific to Coq. +Including the generated makefile with an include directive is +discouraged, since the contents of this file, including variable names and +status of rules, may change in the future. An optional file ``CoqMakefile.local`` can be provided by the user in order to extend ``CoqMakefile``. In particular one can declare custom actions to be |