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Commit 25e4495d authored by Treehugger Robot's avatar Treehugger Robot Committed by Gerrit Code Review
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Merge "Remove showcommands from docs"

parents 0e4c7674 0ae41f2e
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@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Ways to specify what to build:
  An alternative to setting $TARGET_PRODUCT and $TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT,
  which you may see in build servers, is to execute:

    make PRODUCT-<product>-<variant>
    m PRODUCT-<product>-<variant>


  A target may be a file path. For example, out/host/linux-x86/bin/adb .
@@ -46,6 +46,17 @@ Ways to specify what to build:
    files named Android.bp
      these files are defined in Blueprint syntax

  During a build, a few log files are generated in ${OUT} (or ${DIST_DIR}/logs
    for dist builds):

    verbose.log.gz
      every command run, along with its outputs. This is similar to the
      previous `m showcommands` option.
    error.log
      list of actions that failed during the build, and their outputs.
    soong.log
      verbose debug information from soong_ui

  For now, the full (extremely large) compiled list of targets can be found
    (after running the build once), split among these two files:

@@ -57,8 +68,6 @@ Ways to specify what to build:
    tool here.

Targets that adjust an existing build:
  showcommands              Display the individual commands run to implement
                            the build
  dist                      Copy into ${DIST_DIR} the portion of the build
                            that must be distributed

@@ -71,7 +80,7 @@ Variables
  Variables can either be set in the surrounding shell environment or can be
    passed as command-line arguments. For example:
      export I_AM_A_SHELL_VAR=1
      I_AM_ANOTHER_SHELL_VAR=2 make droid I_AM_A_MAKE_VAR=3
      I_AM_ANOTHER_SHELL_VAR=2 m droid I_AM_A_MAKE_VAR=3
  Here are some common variables and their meanings:
    TARGET_PRODUCT          The <product> to build # as described above
    TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT    The <variant> to build # as described above
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@@ -147,12 +147,6 @@ figure out exactly how this will work.</p>
.c, .cpp, .h, .java, java libraries, etc., should all work without intervention
in the Android.mk file.</p>

<h3>Hiding command lines</h3>
<p>The default of the build system will be to hide the command lines being
executed for make steps.  It will be possible to override this by specifying
the showcommands pseudo-target, and possibly by setting an environment
variable.</p>

<h3>Wildcard source files</h3>
<p>Wildcarding source file will be discouraged.  It may be useful in some
scenarios.  The default <code>$(wildcard *)</code> will not work due to the
@@ -326,19 +320,6 @@ and intermediate files for all configurations. This is the same as
directory inside the current combo directory.  This is especially useful on the
simulator and emulator, where the persistent data remains present between 
builds.</li>
<li><b>showcommands</b> - <code>showcommands</code> is a modifier target
which causes the build system to show the actual command lines for the build
steps, instead of the brief descriptions.  Most people don't like seeing the
actual commands, because they're quite long and hard to read, but if you need
to for debugging purposes, you can add <code>showcommands</code> to the list
of targets you build.  For example <code>make showcommands</code> will build
the default android configuration, and <code>make runtime showcommands</code>
will build just the runtime, and targets that it depends on, while displaying
the full command lines.  Please note that there are a couple places where the
commands aren't shown here.  These are considered bugs, and should be fixed,
but they're often hard to track down.  Please let
<a href="mailto:android-build-team">android-build-team</a> know if you find
any.</li>
<li><b>LOCAL_MODULE</b> - Anything you specify as a <code>LOCAL_MODULE</code>
in an Android.mk is made into a pseudotarget.  For example, <code>make
runtime</code> might be shorthand for <code>make