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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Using CVSup
Date: 24 Jan 1997 19:04:04 -0000
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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robert@tabby.kudra.com (Robert Sexton) writes:

>Whats the best way to re-build with new fixes?  make world comes to
>mind, but thats a big project to include a single fix.  not to mention
>the large disk space requirements.  I see a few other targets in the
>make file, but I'm not sure what to use..  I can imagine manually
>re-making and installing specific things (Like the recent cron fix),
>but I run into problem #2....

If the changes are relatively small, I've keept the old objects around
and just done a "make ; make install", with periodic make world's to
keep everything sound. If you note what has changed you could just
rebuild that.

	David.