Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 18:51:42 -0500 (CDT) From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make buildworld: build changes only? Message-ID: <XFMail.20040702185142.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20040701225452.GA16898@lori.mine.nu>
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On 01-Jul-2004 Geert Hendrickx wrote: > Hi, > > I'm keeping track of -STABLE on semi-regular basis. But when I cvsup > to the latest sources and do make buildworld, it always starts to > rebuild the world entirely from scratch. That's somewhat frustrating, > especially if cvsup showed only a screenful of changes. > > Is it possible to rebuild these changes only? I know I could cd to > the directory of each changed file and do a make install there, but > that is of course not quite practical. I suppose this could be > automated, since this was exactly the design principle of make: > rebuild changed sources only. make -DNOCLEAN buildworld See /usr/src/Makefile.inc1 for all the various switches that are available. You may want to set some of them permanently in /etc/make.conf. Just do be aware that doing this can lead to trouble sometimes. -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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