Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 08:26:26 -0700 From: John-David Childs <jdc@nterprise.net> To: Studded <Studded@dal.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Selective make world (WAS Re: perl on 2.2.5) Message-ID: <19971115082626.03444@denver.net> In-Reply-To: <199711150500.VAA14510@mail.san.rr.com>; from Studded on Fri, Nov 14, 1997 at 09:00:32PM -0800 References: <199711150500.VAA14510@mail.san.rr.com>
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On Friday November 14, 1997, Studded <Studded@dal.net> had this to say about "Re: perl on 2.2.5": > On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 16:50:32 -0700, John-David Childs wrote: > > >I've actually been deleteing perl from /usr/bin and /usr/share/perl > >since 2.1.7 and installing the latest version(s) of perl in /usr/local. > > > >There are a few system scripts that look for perl in /usr/bin, but a > >symlink to /usr/local/bin/perl has worked flawlessly for me so far (knock > >on silicon ;-) > > Yeah, I've done the same things, without problems. In fact, last > night I stumbled on a way to prevent the old one from building during a > make world, if anyone would care to comment. :) I went into > /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin and edited the Makefile, deleting the perl > subdirectory. Has anyone else used this technique? I could same myself > some make world time by not building things I'm not going to need. AFAIK, this isn't a problem. I've actually been thinking about a way to make a configuration file in /usr/src which would tell make which files to compile (i.e. even more fine-tuning than just compiling the "bin", "compat", "gnu", etc. sources). There are a ton of programs in the distribution which I've never used in over two years, so not compiling them would be a bonus for my 89% filled hard disks :) However, my problem is that some of those programs that I don't think are necessary may in fact be used by others that are essential. I haven't had time to even fully flesh out a mechanism for setting up a config file/dependency list for such a project. > > Thanks, > > Doug > > *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest > *** Internet Relay Chat server. 4,168 clients and still growing. :-) > *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) > *** Part of the DALnet IRC network *** -- John-David Childs (JC612) Enterprise Internet Solutions System Administrator @denver.net/Internet-Coach/@ronan.net & Network Engineer 1031 S. Parker Rd. #I-8 Denver, CO 80231 As of this^H^H^H^H next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code.
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