[tlbuild] hacking a single package

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Fri Jan 3 01:00:53 CET 2014


On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 06:48:42PM -0500, Bob Tennent wrote:
>  >|On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 05:35:15PM -0500, Bob Tennent wrote:
> 
>  >|> and a Build of all the current sources. Now how do I re-build just
>  >|> one package after changes to the source? I don't see a relevant
>  >|> Makefile.
>  >|
>  >|Assuming you used the "Build" script
> 
> I did and even tested a binary after installation.
> 
>  >| then you can do:
>  >|$ cd Work/texk/dvipdfm-x/
>  >|$ make
> 
>   make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> 
> As I said, there's no evident Makefile.  This is not a standard
> build system.

This have to be done after a successful, complete run of the Build
script (by default Build will start a new each time, so aborting it
before it is finished can leave you with not so useful Work directory).

Regards,
Khaled


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