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From: mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: make world does make clean first -- why??
Date: 17 Jun 1996 08:32:48 GMT
Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland
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James Raynard <james@jraynard.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Steve Farrell <spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>It's actually got past the 'lib-tools' stage, you can just do 'make
>all install' to pick up where it left off.

that does _exactly_ same trick? i always edit the Makefile if 'make world'
hangs after it starts to make actual system... (uncommneting the top line
after 'world:')

>Personally, I usually just do a 'make all install' every day and do a
>'make world' about once a week.

that often? oops...

>You have my sympathies. Even though it only takes 5-6 hours on my
>machine, and I leave it running overnight, it's still too long for my
>liking 8-(

ditto... anyone running freebsd on ppro200(512)? i'd like to know how
long that lasts...

>>nearly that many...  so i was rebooting after building another -STABLE
>>kernel with that number pushed up to 40...)
>Shell limits?

more pty's?

>James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland


mickey