Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:09:53 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash+freebsd@gmail.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what happened to make world? Message-ID: <200708301309.53347.fjwcash%2Bfreebsd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46D71F41.6010609@gahr.ch> References: <46D7186D.8030508@gahr.ch> <20070830154129.46951d54@bhuda.mired.org> <46D71F41.6010609@gahr.ch>
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On August 30, 2007 12:49 pm Pietro Cerutti wrote: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:27:18 +0200 Pietro Cerutti <gahr@gahr.ch>=20 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! =46rom the bit you quoted in your first post: =2D--------- 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. =C2=A0You should understand the implications before doing this. =2D--------- Tells you right there how to work around this warning. =2D-=20 =46reddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT CCLP Network Support Technician School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] fjwcash+freebsd@gmail.com
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