Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:22:34 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE Message-ID: <24511.1089750154@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:20:16 PDT." <16628.17408.87798.143913@ran.psg.com>
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In message <16628.17408.87798.143913@ran.psg.com>, Randy Bush writes: >>> let me ask a different question. what is the need for 'make world'? >> It is mentioned in approximately 22900 hits on google: > >so is george bush, but i am hoping we don't keep him. He'll hopefully stick around in the documentation in the BUGS section :-) >i meant my question seriously. when should i use 'make world', I use it a lot for testing, I know a lot of people use it with DESTDIR=/disk/next_jail and similar. The point here is that people who shoot their own feet off with make world isn't going to stop doing so just because your rename it to "make buildworld installworld" -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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