From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 29 16:37: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98BB137B8F1 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:36:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from johnmpurser@home.com) Received: from C37259A ([24.9.57.64]) by mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <20000301003656.XQWQ9076.mail.rdc1.wa.home.com@C37259A>; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:36:56 -0800 Reply-To: From: "John Purser" To: "'Greg Lehey'" Cc: Subject: RE: Make: don't know how to make buildworld Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:43:07 -0800 Message-ID: <000601bf8317$1cfb9740$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <20000301104846.A87829@freebie.lemis.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks, for getting back to me so quickly and for being right! I just kicked something off and that's a fact! I changed directories to /home/ncvs/src ($CVSUP/src) and then entered make buildworld. Sure enough it started running. I had been running it from /usr/src like the book said to. Is this a needed correction or am I doing something wrong? John Purser -----Original Message----- From: Greg Lehey [mailto:grog@lemis.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 4:19 PM To: John Purser Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make: don't know how to make buildworld On Tuesday, 29 February 2000 at 15:55:06 -0800, John Purser wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running FreeBSD 3.4 after doing an X-user install off CD's. I'm trying > to track the stable branch. I cvsup'ed 3 stable (RELENG_3) this past > weekend. Next I extracted with: > cvs co src > Today I ran: > cvs update -P -d > > Now when I try an make buildworld I get this error message: > Make: don't know how to make buildworld. Stop > > It also doesn't know how to make world. I'm logged in as root. What step > did I skip? cd src The cvs co creates the directory src. You need to be in that directory to make a buildworld. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message