On Jan 21 at 08:42, Gardner Bell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 12:55:32AM +0100 Ramiro Aceves wrote: >> Jorn Argelo wrote: >>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:38:54 +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote >>> >> >> Yes, I understand now. The problem is that my old pentium machine takes >> very long time to compile all the modules even if I am not going to use >> them. I would like to compile only the modules I use, to reduce >> compiling time. Is that possible? >> > Refer to the option MODULES_OVERRIDE in man make.conf(5) if you wish > to only compile certain modules.
Thanks for this! I'm approaching a critical "rite of passage" today conincidentally, by recompiling my kernel and getting rid of stuff I don't need. Doing what you suggest sounds eminently sensible, yet I have to ask a followup question... How do you specify a particular make.conf that should *only* be used for recompiling kernels? Regards & TIA, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One Fri Jan 21 15:57:00 CET 2005 3:57PM up 1 day, 4:47, 5 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
