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@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ various products. These incremental builds are a big timesaver when developing
 and debugging.
 
     cd ${SWIFT_BUILD_DIR}
-    ninja swift
+    ninja swift-frontend
 
 This will build the Swift compiler, but will not rebuild the standard library or
 any other target. Building the `swift-stdlib` target as an additional layer of