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Issue 577280043: Cleanup unneeded parts of Stepmake (Closed)
Patch Set: Created 4 years, 2 months ago
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Index: Documentation/contributor/build-notes.itexi
diff --git a/Documentation/contributor/build-notes.itexi b/Documentation/contributor/build-notes.itexi
index 8a24a8b282690ccd77548db4d0e13115e50b2fcd..6eeebdff93eb254469a3dc454d30ea621fe1a0c3 100644
--- a/Documentation/contributor/build-notes.itexi
+++ b/Documentation/contributor/build-notes.itexi
@@ -133,29 +133,6 @@ non-stable versions only?).
Next - @file{make/local.make}, which doesn't exist.
-Then a few more variable and the interesting comment:
-
-@example
-# Don't try to outsmart us, you puny computer!
-# Well, UGH. This only removes builtin rules from
-@end example
-
-and then tests to see whether BUILTINS_REMOVED is defined. It
-appears to be when I run make, and so
-@file{stepmake/stepmake/no-builtin-rules.make} is run. The
-comment at the head of this file says:
-
-@example
-# UGH. GNU make comes with implicit rules.
-# We don't want any of them, and can't force users to run
-# --no-builtin-rules
-@end example
-
-I've not studied that file at length, but assume it removes all
-make's build-in rules (e.g. @file{*.c} files are run through the
-GNU C compiler) - there's a lot of them in here, and a lot of
-comments, and I'd guess most of it isn't needed.
-
We return to @file{stepmake.make}, where we hit the make rule all:
The first line of this is:
@@ -409,7 +386,7 @@ doc: doc-stage-1
@end example
@example
-MAKE = make --no-builtin-rules
+MAKE = make
-C = Change to directory before make
@end example
@@ -982,7 +959,7 @@ $(MAKE) config_make=$(config_make) \
This translates as:
@example
-make --no-builtin-rules config_make=./config.make \
+make config_make=./config.make \
top-src-dir=/home/phil/lilypond-git \
-f /home/phil/lilypond-git/make/website.make \
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