From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 26 13:25: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A64CD37B401 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:25:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10FBB43F0A for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:25:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA19304; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:24:58 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Kent Stewart To: Jonah Sherman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partial Buildworld Possible? Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:24:58 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20021226161701.GA20462@rootbox> In-Reply-To: <20021226161701.GA20462@rootbox> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200212261324.58423.kstewart@owt.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 26 December 2002 08:17 am, Jonah Sherman wrote: > Hi, I would appreciate it if someone could explain why buildworld > must rebuild _everything_, even if there is one small change(or no > changes). For example, if I do the initial buildworld, then cvsup and > see that code for /bin/ls has changed, then buildworld again, it > recompiles everything. Shouldn't buildworld only recompile /bin/ls? > Even if *nothing* changes, and I were to just run make buildworld two > times consecutively, it still recompiles everything. Could someone > explain why this is the behavior instead of just compiling what has > changed? The noclean option probably does that. If you watch buildworld, the=20 first thing it does is clean up by rm'ing everything. Kent > > Please CC jsherman@stuy.edu on any replies, im not currently > subscribed to -questions > > Thanks, > Jonah > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --=20 Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message