Building the docs with own changes

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 16:14:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 6/8/15 4:27 AM, John Colvin wrote:
>> Is there any non-insane way of changing some documentation in 
>> a module
>> and checking that any links/xrefs you may have added actually 
>> work?
>>
>> The dlang.org makefile appears to happily erase uncommitted 
>> changes in
>> ../druntime and ../phobos. I'm really struggling for words to 
>> describe
>> how infuriating that is. I ran make and it deleted my work in 
>> a separate
>> folder. Not OK.
>
> Bummer about that. I've never encountered this problem. What 
> command(s) did you run? -- Andrei

with dir structure
.
|- dmd
|- druntime
|- phobos
|- dlang.org

clone phobos, edit
clone druntime, edit
clone dmd, compile
compile druntime,
compile phobos
clone dlang.org, make -f posix.mak

boom, my changes are gone