Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:03:31 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills <jmmills@telocity.com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, John Mills <john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu>, FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Q: continuing interrupted 'make buildworld' Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0210011659120.5173-100000@otter.mills-atl.com> In-Reply-To: <adofadx4uk.fad@localhost.localdomain>
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Gary - On 1 Oct 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > IIRC, when I've done "make buildkernel" (maybe "buildworld") a second > time (eg, to do benchmarks with two BIOS settings), the thing rebuilt > the whole kernel again. I've always wondered why. I thought "make" > was supposed to use old files when possible. I suspect the target 'buildworld' has as a condition the target 'clean' or something similar. I started looking for the target definitions, but didn't find them. Like, in a high-level 'Makefile': ... buildworld: clean [...] ... as it may also have: ... installkernel: buildkernel [...] ... - John Mills To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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