From bca53cf091eef0d522776a94ee838cbc3109352b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Olbrich Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:15:28 +0200 Subject: doc: ref_make_macros: add more details to the 'extract' documentation Signed-off-by: Michael Olbrich --- doc/ref_make_macros.inc | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/ref_make_macros.inc b/doc/ref_make_macros.inc index 5bef79f44..b36a82575 100644 --- a/doc/ref_make_macros.inc +++ b/doc/ref_make_macros.inc @@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ For the package *foo* and the *compile* stage, this macro will output:: finished target foo.compile +.. _clean: + clean ~~~~~ @@ -108,6 +110,10 @@ and the directory to unpack to is taken from the ``_DIR`` variable. This macro doesn't do anything if ``_URL`` points to a local directory instead of an archive or online URL. +The target directory is not removed, so ``extract`` can be used multipe +times in a row to extract several archives. Usually :ref:`clean` is +called before the first ``extract``. + compile ~~~~~~~ -- cgit v1.2.3