From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 12 23:47:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA02689 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 23:47:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.virginia.edu (mail.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA02680 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 23:47:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from atf3r@cs.virginia.edu) Received: from ares.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa10512; 13 Dec 97 2:47 EST Received: from mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (mamba-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.18]) by ares.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA06536; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 02:47:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (atf3r@localhost) by mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA11576; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 02:47:26 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU: atf3r owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 02:47:25 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Francisco Reyes cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what/when/how make world In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Francisco Reyes wrote: > 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). 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. All you need is the full source distribution. i.e. everything under /usr/src. When you do a "make world", you will rebuild every executable program shipped as part of FreeBSD as well as regenerate a number of config files. If you do a "make install" afterwards, you will replace your installed binaries. Until you really feel that you need to do this, I'd recommend that you stick with rebuilding the kernel only. This is the most important and most rewarding part of the system to recompile. Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/