6.3.4 Makefile Targets

all

This is the default target. Depending on what your build/host/target configuration is, it coordinates all the things that need to be built.

doc

Produce info-formatted documentation and man pages. Essentially it calls `make man' and `make info'.

dvi

Produce DVI-formatted documentation.

html

Produce HTML-formatted documentation.

man

Generate man pages.

info

Generate info-formatted pages.

mostlyclean

Delete the files made while building the compiler.

clean

That, and all the other files built by `make all'.

distclean

That, and all the files created by configure.

maintainer-clean

Distclean plus any file that can be generated from other files. Note that additional tools may be required beyond what is normally needed to build gcc.

srcextra

Generates files in the source directory that do not exist in CVS but should go into a release tarball. One example is gcc/java/parse.c which is generated from the CVS source file gcc/java/parse.y.

srcinfo

srcman

Copies the info-formatted and manpage documentation into the source directory usually for the purpose of generating a release tarball.

install

Installs gcc.

uninstall

Deletes installed files.

check

Run the testsuite. This creates a testsuite subdirectory that has various .sum and .log files containing the results of the testing. You can run subsets with, for example, `make check-gcc'. You can specify specific tests by setting RUNTESTFLAGS to be the name of the .exp file, optionally followed by (for some tests) an equals and a file wildcard, like:

          make check-gcc RUNTESTFLAGS="execute.exp=19980413-*"
     

Note that running the testsuite may require additional tools be installed, such as TCL or dejagnu.

bootstrap

Builds GCC three times—once with the native compiler, once with the native-built compiler it just built, and once with the compiler it built the second time. In theory, the last two should produce the same results, which `make compare' can check. Each step of this process is called a “stage”, and the results of each stage N (N = 1...3) are copied to a subdirectory stageN/.

bootstrap-lean

Like bootstrap, except that the various stages are removed once they're no longer needed. This saves disk space.

bubblestrap

This incrementally rebuilds each of the three stages, one at a time. It does this by “bubbling” the stages up from their subdirectories (if they had been built previously), rebuilding them, and copying them back to their subdirectories. This will allow you to, for example, continue a bootstrap after fixing a bug which causes the stage2 build to crash.

quickstrap

Rebuilds the most recently built stage. Since each stage requires special invocation, using this target means you don't have to keep track of which stage you're on or what invocation that stage needs.

cleanstrap

Removed everything (`make clean') and rebuilds (`make bootstrap').

restrap

Like cleanstrap, except that the process starts from the first stage build, not from scratch.

stageN (N = 1...4)

For each stage, moves the appropriate files to the stageN subdirectory.

unstageN (N = 1...4)

Undoes the corresponding stageN.

restageN (N = 1...4)

Undoes the corresponding stageN and rebuilds it with the appropriate flags.

compare

Compares the results of stages 2 and 3. This ensures that the compiler is running properly, since it should produce the same object files regardless of how it itself was compiled.

profiledbootstrap

Builds a compiler with profiling feedback information. For more information, see Building with profile feedback. This is actually a target in the top-level directory, which then recurses into the gcc subdirectory multiple times.