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 -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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