Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:23:41 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: quickly build a single program ? Message-ID: <20090125072341.GA22319@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <877i4lo046.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <20090123233611.GA58363@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <877i4lo046.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 05:26:33AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:36:11 +0100, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote: > > how hard would it be to modify the build scripts so that they only try > > to rebuild a single program from a tree where you already made a buildworld ? > > > > i usually do modifications to a single program at a time and it is > > slightly annoying to wait for the build process to scan through all > > the already-built programs to find there is nothing to do for them. > > Most of the time, when there are small changes I just change into the > program's directory and `make'. But this doesn't work when there are > dependencies with other parts of buildworld. ... or when you work on a different tree than the one installed, unless there is an easy way to set the environment variables to point to the correct toolchain and headers/libraries ? Maybe that's all i need in the end. cheers luigi
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