Make targets

[Alan Bateman]

On 09/04/2021 12:42, Jesper Wilhelmsson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing a section about building the JDK from source and need some inspiration :-)
>
> What make targets do you normally use and why?
I assume you'll want a section here on incremental builds. I mostly work 
with exploded builds so I regularly use "make java.base" to just 
re-build the base module. More generally it's "make $MODULE". On some 
occasions,  say when doing significant renaming or refactoring then you 
might need to use "make clean-$MODULE" to blow away the build output for 
a specific module. Incremental builds aren't perfect so the text around 
this probably should set expectations.

I use "make docs-javase" when working on API docs, more generally "make 
docs". There are several make targets here that probably only a few 
people will use (people starting out will probably not need to know 
about these).

-Alan.