make continent
Joshua Oreman
oremanj at webserver.get-linux.org
Fri Jul 11 09:47:34 PDT 2003
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:30:37PM +0100 or thereabouts, Jonathan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Yes, a rather strange subject I grant you, but...
>
> Having been using FreeBSD for a fair few years now, I quite happily do a
> buildworld every now and then but one of the mysteries for me is how to
> rebuild parts of the OS in isolation.
>
> My only interest in this is when a security update comes out and it
> might only affect a certain part of the source tree.
>
> I appreciate that in the BSD model, the idea is that a widget can get
> changed and making world will allow the new features of that widget to
> permeate to all code, but is there any information on how to go into the
> various "continents" and build those on their own?
cd /usr/src/my-continent && make && make install
If you want to be able to do this:
cd /usr/src && make continent=my-continent
submit a PR :-)
-- Josh
>
> - J
>
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