On Thursday 26 December 2002 08:17 am, Jonah Sherman wrote: > Hi, I would appreciate it if someone could explain why buildworld > must rebuild _everything_, even if there is one small change(or no > changes). For example, if I do the initial buildworld, then cvsup and > see that code for /bin/ls has changed, then buildworld again, it > recompiles everything. Shouldn't buildworld only recompile /bin/ls? > Even if *nothing* changes, and I were to just run make buildworld two > times consecutively, it still recompiles everything. Could someone > explain why this is the behavior instead of just compiling what has > changed?
The noclean option probably does that. If you watch buildworld, the first thing it does is clean up by rm'ing everything. Kent > > Please CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] on any replies, im not currently > subscribed to -questions > > Thanks, > Jonah > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
