Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:38:50 -0400 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, Barney Wolff <barney@tp.databus.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world considered harmful Message-ID: <200207220838.50792.bts@babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10207220440120.47292-100000@moo.sysabend.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10207220440120.47292-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
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On Monday 22 July 2002 07:41 am, Jamie Bowden wrote:
| On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Barney Wolff wrote:
| :When is "make world" the right thing to do? If the answer is "never"
| :then why don't we remove it from /usr/src/Makefile? Its availability
| :just leads people into trouble.
|
| Since when? I use it regularly after CVSupdating /usr/src, works fine.
It's definately not recommended even if it will sometimes work.
It causes you to try to start running with the new world while still running
the older kernel. (Or, I guess, you could follow the sequence make kernel,
reboot, make world, mergemaster. That sequence would seem relatively safe, I
guess.)
|
| Jamie Bowden
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