make "quickworld"? (like in DragonFly)

[Erik Trulsson]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:36:06AM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> is there any way (or could it be implemented) to rebuild only the
> changes in world and kernel sources after a cvsup?  DragonFly BSD
> features "make quickworld" and "make quickkernel" which does exactly
> that.  

'make -DNOCLEAN buildworld' seems to work fine for me.


> 
> I understand this might result in some conflicts, and DragonFly also
> advises to do a full buildkernel and buildworld in case of problems.
> But on the other hand, it's very frustrating to see all the stuff like
> gcc, perl, sendmail, ... being recompiled just because of some minor
> changes in some other, unrelated part of the OS.  And in the end, that
> is exactly what make has been designed for: only rebuild the changes
> (and whatever depends on that).  
> 
> Any thoughts?  
> 
> GH
> 
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