Add documentation for <pkg>-rebuild and <pkg>-reconfigure

Since these two special make targets are very useful but not yet
mentioned in the documentation I added them to the make help and
the manual.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Hoffmann <sho@reLinux.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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Stephan Hoffmann 2012-04-06 18:44:22 +02:00 committed by Peter Korsgaard
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@ -654,6 +654,8 @@ help:
@echo
@echo 'Build:'
@echo ' all - make world'
@echo ' <package>-rebuild - force recompile <package>'
@echo ' <package>-reconfigure - force reconfigure <package>'
@echo
@echo 'Configuration:'
@echo ' menuconfig - interactive curses-based configurator'

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@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ The easiest way to rebuild a single package from scratch is to remove
its build directory in +output/build+. Buildroot will then re-extract,
re-configure, re-compile and re-install this package from scratch.
For convenience, most packages support the special make targets
<package>-reconfigure and <package>-rebuild to repeat the configure
and build steps.
However, if you don't want to rebuild the package completely from
scratch, a better understanding of the Buildroot internals is
needed. Internally, to keep track of which steps have been done and