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Date:      Tue, 23 Jul 2002 03:49:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
To:        Barney Wolff <barney@tp.databus.com>
Cc:        "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make world considered harmful
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10207230348120.47292-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020722205906.GA31883@tp.databus.com>

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On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Barney Wolff wrote:

:But there's nothing right with it, either.  Is the demonstrated risk
:of people using it inappropriately really worth not having to type
:  make buildworld && make installworld
:in the few cases where it's safe?  I claim not.
:
:I run cvsup nohup'd and look at the output, but I'd would never trust
:that I'd notice a kernel interface change, and know when I could get
:away with not building the kernel.

#
# $FreeBSD: src/Makefile,v 1.234.2.14 2002/07/16 18:36:19 ru Exp $
#
# The user-driven targets are:
#
# buildworld          - Rebuild *everything*, including glue to help do
#                       upgrades.
# installworld        - Install everything built by "buildworld".
# world               - buildworld + installworld.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but 'make world' appears to do nothing more
than you've done above in fewer keystrokes.

Jamie Bowden

-- 
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Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>



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