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To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc: John Mills <john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu>,
	FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Q: continuing interrupted 'make buildworld'
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Date: 01 Oct 2002 13:48:51 -0700
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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:

> On 2002-09-30 17:31, John Mills <jmmills@telocity.com> 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.

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