Building the docs with own changes

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 18:06:47 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling 
wrote:
> On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 16:27:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> I build the docs probably a few dozen times every day. I just 
>> press up arrow to fetch the previous command, and enter. Takes 
>> no perceptible time. What's the problem? -- Andrei
>
> Well, just for one, I tried building phobos docs a couple of 
> days ago while disconnected from the internet; the whole thing 
> failed because the clones of stable release repos couldn't be 
> done.
>
> No doubt I'm missing a trick, but it didn't seem very obvious, 
> on browsing the makefile, what would get me the simple case of 
> building the development phobos docs using my development dmd, 
> without needing to worry about any of the other options out 
> there.

Yah, you'd need to pass LATEST=2.067.1 in the command line. Then 
the build process won't need to connect to the internet to fetch 
the latest version.

Could you please make a pull request with the explanations you 
wish you had?


Andrei