From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 21 13:23:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7669737B415 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:23:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com ([157.226.230.209]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA278B; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:23:39 -0700 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:17:03 -0700 Received: from balderdash.acuson.com (dhcp-46-107.acuson.com [157.226.46.107]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id NAKS7LVS; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:17:28 -0700 From: Johnson David To: Vinod , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Organization: Acuson Subject: Re: compiling modified source code Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:22:30 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 References: <20020621190014.28878.qmail@web21110.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020621190014.28878.qmail@web21110.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200206211322.30950.djohnson@acuson.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday 21 June 2002 12:00 pm, Vinod wrote: > if i modify a source file,do i need to recompile the > whole kernel again? Not at all! Only compile that changed file and copy the resulting a.out to /kernel. This will be a very educational experience for you. David p.s. Though the above suggestion is obviously an example of humor, the educational experience will be genuine, though not in the manner expected. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message