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From: Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com>
To: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@virginia.edu>
Subject: Re: what/when/how make world
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On 13-Dec-97 Adrian T. Filipi-Martin wrote:
>       99.9% of FreeBSD users never need to do a "make world".  They are
>usually only developers, or people that want to revuild the entire OS with
>their favorite compiler flags, e.g. -m486, if you are not using a pentium
>of newer CPU.  In somecases you will notice a difference in performance.
>Most people don't care enough.  On a 486/66MHz, it is a 12+ hour process.

Thanks for the explanation. I don't think I need/want to do 12+hours of compilat
ion.

>All you need is the full source distribution.  i.e. everything
>under /usr/src. 

You must have a really BIG drive to say that with such ease. :)
I only have a 2 Gig split in FreeBSD, OS/2 and Win 95.