It's being used to generate compile_commands.json to be able to run the various clang tools on the source code base. In this way it's actually technically not required to build, but:
it is currently in the default target
it's probably good to ensure that pull requests don't break this functionality (so we should leave it in a pull-request-required makefile target)
It's being used to generate
compile_commands.json
to be able to run the various clang tools on the source code base. In this way it's actually technically not required to build, but: