From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 5 8:15: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.pciway.com (d83b4646.dsl.flashcom.net [216.59.70.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B35337B502 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 08:15:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (loren@localhost) by unix.pciway.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e95FGgf83525; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 08:16:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from loren@pciway.com) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 08:16:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Loren Koss To: john b p melesky Cc: Daniel Frazier , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Build Kernel woes.. In-Reply-To: <39DC9A91.9C217D6F@dynamictrade.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I thought make buildworld cleans the object tree as its first thing? Is that wrong? On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, john b p melesky wrote: > > I have a question... If I CVSUP again, do I have to build the whole world > > again before I can build the kernel? > > Yes, but... > > If you don't delete the /usr/obj/ directory, make world is a great deal > quicker, as it only updates stuff that has changed. > > The rationale for deleting it regularly is that, over time, dependancies > can change and strange errors can slip in that are easily avoided by > recompiling everything. However, with a difference of a day or so, > you'll probably be fine not deleting it. > > Of course, YMMV. > > -johnnnnnnn > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message