Warner Losh wrote this message on Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 14:08 -0600: > In message: <20060928231816.GI80527_at_funkthat.com> > John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j_at_resnet.uoregon.edu> writes: > : Comments? Improvements? > > Generally, libraries are considered to be a critical part of the > system. They often have many different interdependencies. This is > why we have buildworld: to account for them. If you make the patches > that you describe, then you break the upgrade path for people with > older systems. I don't see how adding the ability to do stand alone builds breaks others ability to upgrade their systems through normal means (i.e. buildworld)... > You don't need to do a complete buildworld either to get new > libraries. However, teasing out the parts that you do and don't need Yes you do, if you don't want to break your existing install by doing a make includes.... > can be a chore. Maybe we should enhance the build system to be able > to say 'rebuild just the libraries w/o rebuilding the toolchain'. IMO, even building just the libraries is a bit much... I would like to integrate this into bsd.lib.mk so that if you use bsd.lib.mk you automaticly get what my patch proposes, but my make-fu is weak... I will admit this will be a bit redundant for buildworld, but it could be easily turned off in that case... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."Received on Sun Oct 01 2006 - 19:56:47 UTC
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