Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 07:41:29 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Odd error at end of "make installworld" Message-ID: <20041108154129.C64EC5D04@ptavv.es.net>
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I think there is a small issue with the Makefile, although I don't see exactly what. But I'm no great shakes on Makefiles. At the very end of the installworld, after completely the makewhatis and /etc stuff, I got the message that I should not be doing a make world: WARNING: make world will overwrite your existing FreeBSD installation without also building and installing a new kernel. This can be dangerous. Please read the handbook, 'Rebuilding world', for how to upgrade your system. Define DESTDIR to where you want to install FreeBSD, including /, to override this warning and proceed as usual. You may get the historical 'make world' behavior by defining HISTORICAL_MAKE_WORLD. You should understand the implications before doing this. Bailing out now... But I had not done a 'make world'. I did the standard sequence with a re-boot after installkernal, a mergemaster -p, and installworld. Since this message is the second invocation of "world:" in Makefile, I suspect it needs to be worked on a bit. FWIW, I was updating from 5.3-Stable of last Wednesday to -Stable of last evening (to get Nate's ACPI patches). -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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