Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:49:21 +0200 From: Pietro Cerutti <gahr@gahr.ch> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what happened to make world? Message-ID: <46D71F41.6010609@gahr.ch> In-Reply-To: <20070830154129.46951d54@bhuda.mired.org> References: <46D7186D.8030508@gahr.ch> <200708302124.48899.max@love2party.net> <46D71A16.6020005@gahr.ch> <20070830154129.46951d54@bhuda.mired.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Mike Meyer wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:27:18 +0200 Pietro Cerutti <gahr@gahr.ch> wrote: > >> Max Laier wrote: >>> On Thursday 30 August 2007, Pietro Cerutti wrote: >>>> # make world >>>> WARNING: make world will overwrite your existing FreeBSD >>>> installation without also building and installing a new >>>> kernel. This can be dangerous. Please read the handbook, >>>> 'Rebuilding world', for how to upgrade your system. >>>> Define DESTDIR to where you want to install FreeBSD, >>>> including /, to override this warning and proceed as usual. >>>> You may get the historical 'make world' behavior by defining >>>> HISTORICAL_MAKE_WORLD. You should understand the implications >>>> before doing this. >>>> >>>> Bailing out now... >>>> *** Error code 1 >>>> >>>> Stop in /usr/src. >>>> >>>> >>>> Now, THIS is quite funny... do you really thing that a person with >>>> - root access >>>> - the knowledge of the existence of "make world" >>>> needs this sort of things? >>>> >>>> I didn't see anything about this new-wave-of-user-friendly-bsd going on >>>> the list.. have I missed something? >>> And your complaint would be ... what exactly? >>> >> I don't want my OS to treat me like a stupid. > > Yeah, we have Windows for that. Or if you hate MS, GNU/Linux. > > But there are valid reasons for wanting to do a make world (i.e. - > you've changed make.conf options the kernel doesn't use). If it's > going to be friendly, it should tell us how to do what we told it to > do.... Even worse.. it doesn't tell you how to do what you tell him to do.. it doubts that maybe that's not what you really want to do! > > <mike -- Pietro Cerutti PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFG1x9FwMJqmJVx944RCiXWAKCMdndQLBh5zWPPkIWgx+4wozWWjwCgiNk2 7qs0BI99Z+qQ5HUxglC7Tgk= =itsH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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