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Date:      Sun, 19 Dec 1999 14:46:02 -0800
From:      "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net>
To:        "Ryan Thompson" <freebsd@sasknow.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Optimization changed from TIME to SPACE
Message-ID:  <004201bf4a72$feeaef80$9299c5d1@webserver>

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From: Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com>
To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Sunday, December 19, 1999 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: Optimization changed from TIME to SPACE


|
|On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Duke Normandin wrote:
|
|> From: Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com>
|> To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net>
|> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
|> Date: Sunday, December 19, 1999 11:05 AM
|> Subject: Re: Optimization changed from TIME to SPACE
|>
|>
|> |You DID just install the system sources, right?  (i.e, /usr/src/sys?)
|>
|>
|> No... I installed the whole ball of wax. Is there any pitfalls in simply
|> deleting everything other than /usr/src/sys? Thanks!
|>
|> later...duke
|
|NOT THAT I KNOW OF... However, I have never tried to install all the
|sources, and then start deleting stuff and still expect compiles to work.
|:-)
|
|There's at least one reference to ../../../include/ in my .depend file, so
|you would be well off keeping /usr/src/include, as it's only 616K on my
|Dec 18 3.4-STABLE system.  Keeping lib/ as well, would probably be a good
|idea, although you'll likely be able to get along without it.
|
|Basically, Duke, what you might want to do, in the name of experimental
|science, is try to delete all the directories under /usr/src/ BUT sys/,
|include/ and lib/, and see if you can successfully make a kernel.  If not,
|rm -rf /usr/src and start installing distributions again :-)
|
|According to the defaults in sysinstall, the "kern-developer" option just
|installs the sys source option... No includes or lib... But I've never
|installed a system with partial sources, so I can't say for sure where
|dependencies lie.  I'm not as familiar with the source tree as many of the
|people here, though.


Thanks for the input...If worse come comes to worse, I'll simply re-install
"in the name of experimental science" :-))LOL

BTW, is this message butchered at your end?

later....duke



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