On 12/05/12 17:22, James wrote:
On 12 May 2012 14:24, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
A small word to this effect might be a nice addition to the contributor
guide (I'll make a patch if you like).
Sure go ahead.
Here you go. :-) Let me know if it needs tweaking or might be better in another
section of the guide.
>From b166358e76bfcdc982fb76d621be81751fc613db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joseph Rushton Wakeling <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 03:21:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] CG tweak: some extra info on make doc and doc build times.
---
Documentation/included/compile.itexi | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/included/compile.itexi
b/Documentation/included/compile.itexi
index e95cf26..4b87ce1 100644
--- a/Documentation/included/compile.itexi
+++ b/Documentation/included/compile.itexi
@@ -456,6 +456,23 @@ targets, run:
make help
@end example
+For example, to build documentation, you can use
+@example
+make doc
+@end example
+
+or to build only the PDF documentation,
+
+@example
+make doc-stage-1
+@end example
+
+Documentation builds can take much longer than building LilyPond itself.
+Some individual commands issued during the make process may take as long
+as an hour to complete on older single-core machines, so don't panic if
+for a long time it looks like nothing is happening! Be patient, and the
+build will complete.
+
TODO: Describe what @command{make} actually does.
--
1.7.9.5
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