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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: problem doing "make world" after CVSup to 2.2.2
Date: 25 Jun 1997 11:41:40 -0700
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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>Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> Hugh LaMaster wrote:
>> > I'm wondering if anyone knows why or whether anyone is
>> > working on bringing the driver up to snuff (unfortunately,
>> > I know next-to-nothing about the SB16 and sound(cards), or
>> > I would work on it myself).
>> The audio code has more or less been abandoned in FreeBSD (and it's
>> hardly any more active in any of the other BSDs or we'd just track
>> them).  Lack of general interest, it seems.

4Front's OSS is pretty good, though.

In article <ECC5FL.50I@nonexistent.com>,
Nathan Dorfman  <nathan@senate.org> wrote:
>Is it possible to upgrade only some things? Like I am upgrading from
>a 2.2.1 system and I just want to upgrade the kernel and perhaps one
>or two other things, like if the compiler changed. I don't want to
>upgrade, say bash or /bin/sh since they haven't changed. Is it possible
>to have it do only the modified stuff?

You could probably go into specific directories and build only
specific things, as long as you're certain nothing it depends on has
changed; say you want to rebuild /bin/sh, then you'd to go
/usr/src/bin/sh and just "make ; make install".  (if i've forgotten
something, somebody please correct me)

rone
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