From 4a26420b145b022fb86a520677180599bc3215cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Flatt Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:40:31 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] update "INSTALL.txt" to explain the `describe-clients` target --- INSTALL.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt index d103291961..aefd49c43d 100644 --- a/INSTALL.txt +++ b/INSTALL.txt @@ -340,6 +340,14 @@ drives the build farm, and the resulting installers are in installer filenames in "build/installer/table.rktd". A log file for each client is written to "build/log". +If you have the "distro-build-server" package installed in some Racket +build (not the one for building installers), you can use + + make describe-clients CONFIG=my-site-config.rkt + +to see, without building anything, the effect of the configuration and +the planned build steps. + The default `CONFIG` path is "build/site.rkt", so you could put your configuration file there and omit the `CONFIG` argument to `make`. A default configuration file is created there automatically. Supply