Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:05:56 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, Jonathan <jonathan@sirtis.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make continent Message-ID: <200307111005.56832.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20030711165037.GC75508@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3F0EE62D.4010507@sirtis.org.uk> <20030711165037.GC75508@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Friday 11 July 2003 09:50 am, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 11), Jonathan said: > > Having been using FreeBSD for a fair few years now, I quite happily > > do a buildworld every now and then but one of the mysteries for me is > > how to rebuild parts of the OS in isolation. > > > > My only interest in this is when a security update comes out and it > > might only affect a certain part of the source tree. > > > > I appreciate that in the BSD model, the idea is that a widget can get > > changed and making world will allow the new features of that widget > > to permeate to all code, but is there any information on how to go > > into the various "continents" and build those on their own? > > For most stuff, you can simply cd into /usr/src/usr.bin/programname, or > /usr/src/lib/libname, and run "make obj && make depend && make && make > install". If you rebuild a library, though, it's up to you to make > sure that you also rebuild any statically-linked programs using that > library. There may also be issues where buiding one program may > require another program to be updated (the texinfo stuff, for example, > or a new copy of sed or make). The reason there's a "make world" is to > ensure that all these dependencies are taken care of. If it is a library a "make world" may not be enough and you may need to rebuild your kernel. There has usually been enough time between security notices that I normally rebuild everything. My systems mostly follow -stable and my world wouldn't apply to a release based system. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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