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Date:      Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:05:31 +0200
From:      Ruben de Groot <fbsd-q@bzerk.org>
To:        "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
Cc:        Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, Barney Wolff <barney@tp.databus.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make world considered harmful
Message-ID:  <20020722150531.A7119@ei.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <200207220838.50792.bts@babbleon.org>; from bts@babbleon.org on Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 08:38:50AM -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10207220440120.47292-100000@moo.sysabend.org> <200207220838.50792.bts@babbleon.org>

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On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 08:38:50AM -0400, Brian T. Schellenberger typed:
> 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.)

Save, but not supported. You must buildworld before you can buildkernel.

> 
> |
> | Jamie Bowden
> 
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