Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 01:17:17 -0400 From: James Kalmadge <kalmadg@banet.net> To: Gurudatt Shenoy <gurudatt@cs.tamu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Compilation Speedup? Message-ID: <37536CDC.BA6F68A@banet.net> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990531123338.6042A-100000@dilbert>
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Gurudatt Shenoy wrote: > Hello, > > When I make a change to one kernel file - uipc_socket.c and do a "make", > (or make depend followed by make), all the files in the kernel seem to be > recompiled again. It takes about one hour on my 486 DX to build the new > kernel. > > Is there an established way to speed up things so that only the one file > will be recompiled and the rest just linked into the new kernel? It would > save me a lot of time! > > Thanks, > Guru > > PS: Please reply to me direct as I am not on the FreeBSD Questions list > yet. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message And the asnwer is: config -n Do not remove the old compile directory (see below [ in man config ]). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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