[illumos-Developer] How to build individual illumos components

[Garrett D'Amore]

  On 04/10/11 07:17 AM, Gary Mills wrote:
> While fixing a minor bug in m4, I figured out how to build only that
> utility, rather than the whole illumos distribution.  This procedure
> seems not to be documented on the illumos wiki.  I'd be happy to
> remidy this situation.  Where should this information go on the wiki?
>

There's a reason its not documented.  It won't work all utilities, 
especially those with library dependencies.  However, as a note, doing 
"make setup" in the top level, plus a "make install" in the directory of 
interest, usually works if the utility is self contained.

     - Garrett