From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 1 13:56:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F5837B408 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:56:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter.mills-atl.com (dsl-64-192-140-77.telocity.com [64.192.140.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A98F43E75 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:56:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmmills@telocity.com) Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by otter.mills-atl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA05225; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:03:31 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: otter.mills-atl.com: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:03:31 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills X-Sender: jmills@otter.mills-atl.com Reply-To: John Mills To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , John Mills , FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Q: continuing interrupted 'make buildworld' In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message