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From: "Rick Hoppe" <mailing@rickhoppe.nl>
To: "Dale Morris" <dlm@well.com>
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Subject: RE: make buildworld
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:21:41 +0100
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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



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