Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:09:11 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash+freebsd@gmail.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what happened to make world? Message-ID: <200708301309.11353.fjwcash%2Bfreebsd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070830154129.46951d54@bhuda.mired.org> References: <46D7186D.8030508@gahr.ch> <46D71A16.6020005@gahr.ch> <20070830154129.46951d54@bhuda.mired.org>
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On August 30, 2007 12:41 pm 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.... =46rom the original 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. =A0You should understand the implications before doing this. =2D--------- What part in there doesn't make sense? :) It tells you right there "how=20 to do what we told it to do". Seems like a lot of whining over nothing. =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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