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authorThomas Miedema <thomasmiedema@gmail.com>2015-08-15 17:45:57 +0200
committerThomas Miedema <thomasmiedema@gmail.com>2015-09-04 16:01:06 +0200
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Build system: implement `make install-strip` (#1851)
Reviewed by: bgamari Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1209
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@@ -24,8 +24,10 @@ Common commands:
Shows the targets available in <dir>
- make install
+ - make install-strip
- Installs GHC, libraries and tools under $(prefix)
+ Installs GHC, libraries and tools under $(prefix). The install-strip
+ variant strips executable files while installing them.
- make sdist
- make binary-dist
@@ -33,13 +35,10 @@ Common commands:
Builds a source or binary distribution respectively
- `make show VALUE=<var>`
-
- Displays the value of make variable <var>
-
- `make show! VALUE=<var>`
- Same as `make show`, but works right after ./configure (it skips reading
- package-data.mk files).
+ Show the value of make variable <var>. The show! variant works right after
+ ./configure (it skips reading package-data.mk files).
- make clean
- make distclean
@@ -76,9 +75,11 @@ Using `make` in subdirectories
Make documentation in this directory (if any)
- - `make show VALUE=var`
+ - `make show VALUE=<var>`
+ - `make show! VALUE=<var>`
- Show the value of $(var)
+ Show the value of make variable <var>. The show! variant works right after
+ ./configure (it skips reading package-data.mk files).
- `make <file>`