lmc@denelcor.UUCP (07/14/84)
Just a general sort of a question here -- does anyone know what the effects of uttering "make" would be for someone with super-user priviledges when cd'd to /usr/src under 4.2bsd (assuming that the system had just been brought up from scratch, and there exists enough disk space and so on)? Would they get a whole bunch of "Allready made" messages? Would everything in the universe get recompiled? Assuming it does the "right" thing, is it smart about doing first things first, like libraries before utilities? Would there be anything left of value afterwards? Has anyone done it? Does Berkeley actually use the top level make this way? The reason for asking is that I want to hack into login the System 3 password timeout stuff. In order to do this, I have to change pwd.h and recompile everthing that includes it. Rather than fritter away a whole Saturday finding all the utilities involved, I would like to just say "make" and go fishing for the weekend (or longer?). But I'm afraid. I'll certainly summarize replies to this, as there *have* to be others out there who want to know but are afraid to ask. Providing I get any. Thanks. -- Lyle McElhaney (hao,brl-bmd,nbires,csu-cs,scgvaxd)!denelcor!lmc