From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 15 20:26:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2730C37B404 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 20:26:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4G3QEH00443; Wed, 15 May 2002 20:26:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 20:26:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Craig Cc: Steven Lake , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make world?? In-Reply-To: <3CE30C82.1090008@cheetahusa.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 May 2002, Craig wrote: > Steven Lake wrote: > > Forgive me for asking this, cause I probubly should know how to do > > this, but what exactly does "make world" do? I'm assuming it's something > > I need to do to update my installed binaries after reading recent posts. > > How do I go about doing this? I've never dealt with this before and this > > definately struck my curiousity. make world updates the base system from source code. It is equivalent to running make buildworld && make installworld, and usually you want to do that in those two steps. > > You're right. I recommend starting at the beginning of the handbook but > here is the intro to what you're asking: > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig.html > > And checking the FreeBSD site is usually the best place to look for most > any information about FreeBSD. I think that's not coincidental. Building a kernel also requires source code, but make world does not build a new kernel. Knowing how to build a kernel is good, as a new kernel should be built when you upgrade the base system. You get source code using the cvsup program. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message