Gary -

On 1 Oct 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:

> 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.

I suspect the target 'buildworld' has as a condition the target 'clean' or
something similar. I started looking for the target definitions, but
didn't find them.

Like, in a high-level 'Makefile':
...
buildworld: clean [...]

...

as it may also have:
...
installkernel: buildkernel [...]

...

 - John Mills


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