On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:02:59PM -0500, Nate Hill wrote:
> I'm a recent -current user (running first build now) and I'm wondering about 
> the frequency of toolchain updating versus distribution building.  Due to 
> some ambiguities in documentation, I'm wondering if the toolchain I built the 
> first time would survive another source update/build.  In general, I'm 
> wondering how often I should update the toolchain if I plan on updating the 
> source tree and distribution approximately every two weeks.

If you're looking for a time-based method, "every time".

A simple optimization to that is, "when any of the tools change."

The most accurate answer is, "when any of the tools change in such a way
that it affects the build."

Obviously, it's not always obvious to identify the last--especially if
you're not reading everything on source-changes.  Major changes will be
noted and probably discussed here, though.

To ramble a bit more: If you have a reasonably fast box, and you're
updating every two weeks, just go ahead and build the toolchain every
time.  On x86, the kernel complies take longer than anything else.

-allen

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 Allen Briggs                     briggs@wasabisystems.com
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