Louis Dionne 1f8e286cdc [libc++] Add a CMake target to re-generate files and revamp CONTRIBUTING.rst
As we automate more and more things in the library, it becomes useful for
contributors to have a single target for running all the automation as
part of their workflow. This commit adds a new `libcxx-generate-files`
target that should re-generate all the auto-generated files in the library.

As a fly-by, I also revamped the documentation on Contributing to account
for this new target and present it as a bullet list of things to check
before committing. I also added a few things that are often overlooked
to that list, such as updating the synopsis and the status files.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D106067
2021-07-15 12:07:26 -04:00
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libc++ Documentation
====================

The libc++ documentation is written using the Sphinx documentation generator. It is
currently tested with Sphinx 1.1.3.

To build the documents into html configure libc++ with the following cmake options:

  * -DLLVM_ENABLE_SPHINX=ON
  * -DLIBCXX_INCLUDE_DOCS=ON

After configuring libc++ with these options the make rule `docs-libcxx-html`
should be available.

The documentation in this directory is published at https://libcxx.llvm.org. It is kept up-to-date
by a build bot: https://lab.llvm.org/buildbot/#/builders/publish-sphinx-docs. If you notice that the
documentation is not updating anymore, please contact one of the maintainers.