Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 08:57:49 +1000 From: Andrew Johns <A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au> To: Gurudatt Shenoy <gurudatt@cs.tamu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel Compilation Speedup? Message-ID: <375313ED.4C972FFA@TurnAround.com.au> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990531123338.6042A-100000@dilbert>
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Gurudatt Shenoy wrote: > > Hello, > > When I make a change to one kernel file - uipc_socket.c and do a "make", > (or make depend followed by make), all the files in the kernel seem to be > recompiled again. It takes about one hour on my 486 DX to build the new > kernel. > > Is there an established way to speed up things so that only the one file > will be recompiled and the rest just linked into the new kernel? It would > save me a lot of time! > I'm guessing that you are using FreeBSD < 3.0? Try man config and look for the option to NOT remove the previous (existing) compilation directory - this will speed things up significantly. This behaviour has been made the default since 3.0 (or thereabouts). HTH -- Regards | _/\_/\ Andrew Johns BSc (Comp Sci) | / \ TurnAround Solutions Pty Ltd | \_...__/ http://www.turnaround.com.au/ | \/ "The box said 'Requires Windows 98, NT, Linux or better' so I installed FreeBSD." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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