Below is a list of standard targets of the toplevel makefile.
Targets to create the images and file-systems:
Name | Description |
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media | The default target. This creates the disk-images of the distribution (depending on the type this is equivalent to the targets 'img' or 'iso'). |
floppies | Copies the disk-images (if available) to physical floppies. |
img | Creates the floppy or floppies of the distribution (depends on the media-type). |
iso | For CD-types only. Creates the ISO9660-image (with Rock-Ridge extensions). |
root-fs | Creates the root-filesystem of the distribution. |
cd-fs | For CD-types only. Creates the filesystem on the CD. |
foo-fs | Creates the filesystem foo-fs. Note that the "-fs" is significant. |
If you need to create a special build-environment for your distribution, you can use the following targets:
Name | Description |
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env | Creates the build-environment. This targets processes all packages defined in env_PACKAGES. Theses environment-packages are searched for below DIST_ROOT/src/packages/env. See "The build-environment" for details. |
env-clean | Cleanup of build-environment. |
env-distclean | Cleanup of build-environment for distribution. |
Targets to request help or information:
Name | Description |
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help | Shows generic help. |
help-targets | Shows available targets (depends on media-type). |
help-types | Shows available types (the output depends on the -t option you passed to gendist.sh). |
help-params | Explains standard and type-specific configuration parameters. |
help-config | Shows current values of configuration parameters. |
help-version | Shows version information about the distribution and the GENDIST-version of the build-system |
Targets to cleanup created files (currently, the core build-system shows no difference between these targets, but your own packages might use them differently).
Name | Description |
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clean | Remove created files. |
distclean | Remove also files which should not go into the distribution packages. |
mrproper | Remove everything possible. |
Targets to create distribution packages:
Name | Description |
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src-dist | Creates a source distribution package. This includes all files of the build-system and all files not removed by 'make distclean'. The name of the generated archive is DistributionName-version-src.tar.bz2. |
bin-dist | Creates a binary distribution with only the created image-files and all administrative files (README, NEWS, ChangeLog). Note that 'make bin-dist' recreates the image-files, so if you need to pass arguments to make, you should also pass them to 'make bin-dist'. The name of the generated archive is DistributionName-version-bin.tar.bz2. |
Targets to change the version number:
Name | Description |
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inc-dist-major | Increments the major version number of the distribution and sets the minor version number and the patch-level to zero. |
inc-dist-minor | Increments the minor version number of the distribution and sets the patch-level to zero. |
inc-dist-pl | Increments the patch-level of the distribution. |
Targets to build/clean/install individual packages:
Name | Description |
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package-target | Make a specific target of a given package in a given filesystem. Syntax: make package-target package=foo fs=root-fs target=bar |
package-src-archive | Create a source-archive of a given package. Syntax: make package-src-archive package=foo fs=root-fs. This creates the file DIST_NAME-VERSION-package-src-tar.bz2. Packages in this format are the preferred means of sharing packages. |
package-bin-archive | Create a binary-archive of a given package. Syntax: make package-bin-archive package=foo fs=root-fs. This creates the file DIST_NAME-VERSION-package-bin-tar.bz2. This package can directly be unpacked under foo-fs. You can use the "tar"-package of GENDIST_ROOT/examples/packages/tar to automate this. Note that creating binary packages does not always work, since the package might depend on other packages being installed first. |
foo_ | Builds (and installs) the package named foo. All prereq-packages are also processed. |
foo_install | Builds (and installs) the package named foo. No prereq-packages are processed. |
foo_clean | Cleanup package named foo. |