make -DNOCLEAN buildworld taking a long time

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Fri Oct 26 03:22:20 PDT 2007


On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 02:31:43PM +0500, rihad wrote:
> I'm frequently doing cd /usr/src/ && make update, and then the whole 
> buildworld/kernel/mergemaster dance.  Why is make -DNOCLEAN buildworld 
> kernel taking a long time rebuilding most parts? Shouldn't it only build 
> whatever has changed?
> 
This happens when e.g. sys/param.h changes.


Cheers,
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Ruslan Ermilov
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