From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 5 15:28:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pefletti.saunalahti.fi (mail.sci.fi [195.74.0.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CDF537BC27 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 15:28:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from juksi@iname.com) Received: from sjukebox (MMMCCCXXX.hdyn.saunalahti.fi [195.197.47.30]) by pefletti.saunalahti.fi (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA01361; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 01:25:02 +0300 (EET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000405180855.O13499@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 01:24:18 +0300 (EEST) From: Jukka Simila To: David Murphy Subject: Re: make world failed Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Apr-00 David Murphy wrote: > Quoting > by Jukka Simila : > >> that showed me a list of files, and there was BIG LETTERS: UPDATING >> I thought, well, I'm now running 3.4, and I'm about to install 4.0, >> so I'd guess that's called UPDATING. Some common sense, I think? I >> read the UPDATING and followed those very simple instructions there >> (well I have to admit I couldn't build a custom kernel before I had >> updated the system with GENERIC, but that really isn't a big >> problem) > > Where in UPDATING did you find the update instructions? I did the same > as you, except when I came to read UPDATING, it looked like a > changelog, so i stopped reading after a 5 pages or so - little did I > know at the time that the critical instructions were at the end of the > file. Shortly after, those paragraphs were moved to the top of > UPDATING, which is a vast improvement, and greatly improves the > chances of basically clueful people finding the instructions. It's > this level of improvement that the docs need most - moving/putting > pointers to pre-existing text to places where the basically clueful > will look. apparently i was lucky: info was at the top of the file, so the file had already been updated that way before i got it. @-`--,--`--- Jukka Simila To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message