From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 12 21:06:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA24505 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 21:06:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA24497 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 21:06:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from francisco@natserv.com) Received: from quisqueya.natserv.com (slip-32-100-113-202.ny.us.ibm.net [32.100.113.202]) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA24931 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:06:22 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:00:47 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: what/when/how make world Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Recently subscribed to the stable mailing list. I see references to "make world" , but have not find that much info about it. The only place on the documentation I found about it is on the FAQ. In it it say s: make world clobbers my existing installed binaries. In there it explains that "make world" rebuilds all the binaries of the system. When would it be necessary to do this? What sources do I need to dl? why would I want to do this instead of just the kernel? I tried searching the mailing list for this, but it seems they are down (even a search on "make" by itself returned nothing).