7.0, make buildworld without contrib. old top binary in contrib.

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Nov 14 14:06:22 PST 2007


In the last episode (Nov 14), peceka said:
> Hi,
> 
> can someone tell me if there is any possibility to do make buildworld
> without compiling all contrib/ directory? I don't need for example bind9
> in base, ipfilter, lukemftp(d).
> And why in /usr/src/contrib is very old top binary, 3.5beta12? On
> http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/unixtop there is top-3.7beta2 where
> ie. -c option, very helpful, works.

FreeBSD's top recently got an "-a" option that seems to do the same
thing.  It might be nice if this were renamed to -c before 7.0 gets
released, to make subsequent merges from unixtop easier.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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