On Sep 9, 2008, at 10:05 PM, I8abyte wrote:
On an aside ... I'd like to propose a feature request (and I may be missing an existing option altogether so please correct me!) ... can you please offer a "force" install option in the makefile or document such an option to make it more clear/obvious??? I hate to b-n-m but hanging around for 2+ hours on a full all-source recompile only to find that it thinks everything is up to date is a bit frustrating, to say the least :^\ Thanks!
There are a bunch of options for it. You can set --with-buildopts="- force" to get force rebuilds. After doing that, one usually doesn't want to rebuild everything, but just one thing. For that, there is an -only suffix for packages that you can use to specify a rebuild of a package without rebuilding its dependencies.
Where would you expect to find this documented? What caused you to need it?
Charles
