Re: (native build & other issues - Was: xvfb not built on vax...)

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Andrew Sporner wrote:

> Its been some time since I did a full-build (10 years actually) but on
> other systems I work on I don't do complete builds each time.  IIRC
> a "world build" involves doing a complete clean first.
>
> Would there be a possibility to create an option to do an "incremental
> world build" that builds only the things that have changed?

        ./build.sh -u -o -T TOOLDIR
        should do an incremental build.

[...]
> What is the status on "packages" that are more or less "release independant"?
> If more things were "packagized" this would reduce the things that would
> have to be build in the "world build".

        What do you mean by packages here - parts of the OS/core X, or
        applications from pkgsrc?

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