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authorEvan Martin <martine@danga.com>2014-11-18 17:06:48 (GMT)
committerEvan Martin <martine@danga.com>2014-11-18 17:06:48 (GMT)
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Merge pull request #854 from martine/bootstrap
add a --bootstrap mode for configure.py
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@@ -5,10 +5,12 @@ See the manual -- http://martine.github.com/ninja/manual.html or
doc/manual.asciidoc included in the distribution -- for background
and more details.
-To build, run ./bootstrap.py. It first blindly compiles all non-test
+To build, run ./configure.py --bootstrap. It first compiles all non-test
source files together, then re-builds Ninja using itself. You should
-end up with a 'ninja' binary in the source root. Run './ninja -h' for
-help.
+end up with a 'ninja' binary in the source root.
+
+Run './configure.py --help' for more configuration options.
+Run './ninja -h' for Ninja help.
There is no installation step. The only file of interest to a user
is the resulting ninja binary.