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Date:      Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:49:08 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make "quickworld"? (like in DragonFly)
Message-ID:  <20040811124908.GA73891@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040810223606.GA75648@lori.mine.nu>
References:  <20040810223606.GA75648@lori.mine.nu>

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On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:36:06AM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> is there any way (or could it be implemented) to rebuild only the
> changes in world and kernel sources after a cvsup?  DragonFly BSD
> features "make quickworld" and "make quickkernel" which does exactly
> that.  

'make -DNOCLEAN buildworld' seems to work fine for me.


> 
> I understand this might result in some conflicts, and DragonFly also
> advises to do a full buildkernel and buildworld in case of problems.
> But on the other hand, it's very frustrating to see all the stuff like
> gcc, perl, sendmail, ... being recompiled just because of some minor
> changes in some other, unrelated part of the OS.  And in the end, that
> is exactly what make has been designed for: only rebuild the changes
> (and whatever depends on that).  
> 
> Any thoughts?  
> 
> GH
> 
> PS: please CC me in reply.  
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Erik Trulsson
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