6. Other useful make targets

There are some other useful targets defined in the top level Makefile of XFree86:

Everything

After a make World, make Everything replicates make World except for the cleaning of the source tree. make Everything very quickly rebuilds the tree after a source patch, but there are times when it is better to force a full build by using make World.

clean

This does a partial cleaning of the source tree. Removes object files and generated manual pages, but leaves the Makefiles and the generated dependencies files in place. After a make clean you need to re-run

        make includes
        make depend
        make

to rebuild the XFree86.

distclean

This does a full cleaning of the source tree, removing all generated files. After a make distclean, make World is the only option to rebuild XFree86.

includes

This generates all generated header files and in-tree symbolic links needed by the build. These files are removed by a make clean.

depend

This recomputes the dependencies for the various targets in all Makefiles. Depending on the operating system, the dependencies are stored in the Makefile, or as a separate file, called .depend. This target needs the generated include files produced by make includes.

VerifyOS

This displays the detected operating system version. If the numbers shown do not match your system, you probably need to set them manually in host.def and report the problem to XFree86@XFree86.org .