From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 10:06:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F4EC37B413 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:06:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C72143FAF for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:06:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h6BH5vk31839; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:05:57 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: Dan Nelson , Jonathan Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:05:56 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <3F0EE62D.4010507@sirtis.org.uk> <20030711165037.GC75508@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030711165037.GC75508@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307111005.56832.kstewart@owt.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make continent X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:06:10 -0000 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