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HACKING.adoc: document clean-for-dune
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./configure # if not already done
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make clean && dune build @libs
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make clean-for-dune && dune build @libs
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which will do a bytecode build of all the distribution (without linking
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particular, you need to repeat the dune build every time you change the interface
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of some compilation unit, so that merlin is aware of the new interface.
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You only need to run `configure` once, but you will need to run `make clean`
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every time you want to run `dune` after you built something with `make`;
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otherwise dune will complain that build artefacts are present among the sources.
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You only need to run `configure` once, but you will need to run `make
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clean-for-dune` every time you want to run `dune` after you built
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something with `make`; otherwise dune will complain that build
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artefacts are present among the sources. (Not all build artifacts need
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to be removed, `clean-for-dune` removes less than `clean` or
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`partialclean` and thus Make will rebuild faster.)
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Finally, there will be times where the compiler simply cannot be built with an
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older version of itself. One example of this is when a new primitive is added to