Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2002-09-30 17:31, John Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would like to restart a 'make buildworld' without deleting or recreating > > any unnecesary files (i.e., after messing about in the source tree). > > > > How should I do this? (Is this the effect of 'make -DNOCLEAN buildworld'?) > > That should work. It will rebuild a few things that you could > probably avoid, but in general it works fine.
IIRC, when I've done "make buildkernel" (maybe "buildworld") a second time (eg, to do benchmarks with two BIOS settings), the thing rebuilt the whole kernel again. I've always wondered why. I thought "make" was supposed to use old files when possible. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message