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author | Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-09-17 05:01:04 +0000 |
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committer | Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-09-17 05:01:04 +0000 |
commit | 1c67eb6420a50250a227d9d151fab481f3760966 (patch) | |
tree | 890f840a4fcf64f35777310b1b4a111b1ce579f8 /tools | |
parent | a87f765b1913f44e2ab081087bf60706dab424cd (diff) | |
download | src-1c67eb6420a50250a227d9d151fab481f3760966.tar.gz src-1c67eb6420a50250a227d9d151fab481f3760966.zip |
Document NO_SILENT for META_MODE.
Reword and add some formatting as well.
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=287904
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r-- | tools/build/options/WITH_META_MODE | 19 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/build/options/WITH_META_MODE b/tools/build/options/WITH_META_MODE index 16e79ae1c511..b255777956bc 100644 --- a/tools/build/options/WITH_META_MODE +++ b/tools/build/options/WITH_META_MODE @@ -1,11 +1,17 @@ .\" $FreeBSD$ Enable building in meta mode. .Pp -The build is driven by dirdeps.mk using DIRDEPS stored in +The build is driven by dirdeps.mk using +.Va DIRDEPS +stored in Makefile.depend files found in each directory. .Pp The build can be started from anywhere, and behaves the same. -The initial instance of make recursively reads DIRDEPS from Makefile.depend +The initial instance of +.Xr make 1 +recursively reads +.Va DIRDEPS +from Makefile.depend computing a graph of tree dependencies from the current origin. See http://www.crufty.net/help/sjg/dirdeps.htm .Pp @@ -16,5 +22,10 @@ the command line, as well as any command output. If .Xr filemon 4 -is available the meta file will also capture a record of syscalls -used to produce the target. +is available the meta file will also capture a record of files +used to produce the target by tracking syscalls. +.Pp +The build will hide commands ran unless +.Va NO_SILENT +is defined. +.Pp |