[illumos-Developer] How to build individual illumos components

[Gary Mills]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 01:17:44PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>  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.

So, does that mean that the procedure should not be documented?  I'm
certainly willing to desist.

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