On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 03:28:42PM +0200, Alistair Crooks wrote:
: On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 08:20:06AM -0500, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
: >
: > Another way would be to create top level targets that only build and
: > package a portion of the tree, like "make build-base build-mailers
: > build-compilers package-base package-mailers package-compilers". "make
: > build" and especially "make release" should do them all by default,
: > but again, folks would want an easy way to specify the ones they want.
: > 
: > Frederick
: 
: See the *_SPECIFIC_PKGS definitions.

Yes, but that's only for packages.  There's currently no way to do
something similar in /usr/src (as far as I know).  So, for those that
don't use/want sendmail/postfix/bind/uucp/etc... there's no way of not
building them and chewing up cycles during a "make build" or taking up
disk space.

        --Jerry