Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:21:41 +0100 From: "Rick Hoppe" <mailing@rickhoppe.nl> To: "Dale Morris" <dlm@well.com> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: make buildworld Message-ID: <MLECKHBMGODPBDHNOIAACEKECNAA.mailing@rickhoppe.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020310185809.A49874@lymond.lvcm.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dale Morris > Subject: make buildworld > > Could someone explain the make buildworld process? I've been looking > around through the lists and google, also my Complete FreeBSD book and > am not finding some specific answers. For example > > Is the make buildworld process one that rebuilds all exiting programs on > your machine? I understand it builds everything from source. > > Since I'm doing just that now after having updated with cvsup, I > understand all I have to do is drop down into single user mode, run make > installworld and presto, everything is new and working! :-) > > Make sure you read the following section of the FreeBSD Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html 'make world' updates the entire FreeBSD base system from source, not the third-party tools you may have installed. Regards, Rick Hoppe Network- and Systemspecialist Xtraxion Internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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