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Re: How to compile just a portion of glibc
- To: "Dinesh Nadarajah" <dxn1972 at hotmail dot com>
- Subject: Re: How to compile just a portion of glibc
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 07:56:14 +0200
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <F112E279K7AZ2bDcQpb000121d9@hotmail.com>
"Dinesh Nadarajah" <dxn1972@hotmail.com> writes:
> Hi:
>
> I am trying to implement support for a new encoding in glibc. I have
> would like to test it but currently I compile and install using make |
> make install. This takes a very long time. I would like to compile
> just the iconv component and install that so that I can test the
> module before submission. Can someone point oit how I can accomplish
> that?
You have to compile everything first.
But if you make changes in just one directory use some of the
shortcuts e.g. make subdirs=iconv, or make iconv/subdir_lib (see the
make output) - but this only works after everything has been build
once!
Andreas
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