Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 15:23:41 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org> To: Ronald C Price <rprice@eng.utah.edu>, doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ? Message-ID: <01060915234103.54233@clan.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.4.10.10106041645380.12432-100000@lab1-22.eng.utah.edu> References: <Pine.4.10.10106041645380.12432-100000@lab1-22.eng.utah.edu>
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On Monday 04 June 2001 11:49 pm, Ronald C Price wrote:
> I have a question on the (7.3.)building and installing of a custom kernal
> documentation. What is "world" and how do I build. I have referred to
> your errata page and did not see anything.
It comes from the command used to recompile all of FreeBSD.
This is done using a program called "make", which takes a number of
possible options on the command line, and make reads a configuration file
(a Makefile) which tells it what to build. The Makefile specifies what
some of the valid options to make are. We call these "targets".
In many cases, the Makefile contains information about more than one
target, and many of these targets have traditional names, like "all",
"install", or "clean" -- so the command line might look like
make all
make install
make clean
and so on.
Traditionally, the target to use for any big software project is called
"world", so the command line would be
make world
This then gives rise to slang terms like "re-make the world", or "don't
forget to rebuild the world after you do this". If you take a look at the
chapter again (on the website) you should see a link to
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html
which has more details about how you actually go about running "make world".
N
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