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Auto merge of #42491 - RalfJung:bootstrap-help, r=alexcrichton
bootstrap: improve 'build --help' by explaining what exactly the last example does
I recently found myself confused about what exactly gets built how often when I run which command; I think this would have helped me.
One thing I did not touch, but I feel could also be improved, is the wording just above: "For a quick build with a usable compile, you can pass". I am not a native speaker, but this sounds odd to me. Do you mean "For a quick build of a usable compiler" (but then it should say where the usable compiler is produced)? Or do you mean "For a quick build testing if the compiler is usable"? I can reword this, but I'd like to make sure I understand the intent of the message.
What about
```
For a quick build of a usable compiler, you can pass:
./x.py build --stage 1 src/libtest
This will first build everything once (like --stage 0 without further
arguments would), and then use the compiler built in stage 0 to build
src/libtest and its dependencies.
Once this is done, build/$ARCH/stage1 contains a usable compiler.
```
However, I am not sure this is actually true. In particular, why even bother building the libstd in stage 1? AFAIK that ends up in `build/*/stage1-std`, not in `build/*/stage1` (which is filled from `build/*/stage0-*`).1 file changed
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