Skipping installworld

Alan Somers asomers at freebsd.org
Sat Mar 30 20:15:20 UTC 2019


On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 12:09 PM Patrick Mahan <plmahan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p7 AMD64
>
> I am trying to debug a PAM/dovecot issue and want to add some more detail
> debugging to the PAM code.  Do I really need to do an installworld just to
> install the changed PAM module (pam_unix.so) or can I safely copy it by
> hand?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick

No need to do an installworld.  You can safely do a "make && make
install" from the lib/libpam directory.  Just make sure that you build
from the correct source tree for your release.

-Alan


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