cvs commit: src Makefile README

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jun 22 23:24:12 UTC 2006


On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:27:06 -0400
John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 22 June 2006 13:09, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > * John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> [060620 13:31] wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 20 June 2006 14:53, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 07:43:00PM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > > > > Personally, I was debating on just removing most of the
> > > > > world target with just a message:
> > > > > 
> > > > > "The world target has been replaced with the buildworld target."
> > > > 
> > > > No!
> > > > 
> > > > 'make world' is still my normal building process.  Why force
> > > > "make buildworld && make installworld"??
> > > > 
> > > > I don't care how undocumented it is, or obfusacted
> > > > 'HISTORICAL_MAKE_WORLD' is; but please leave them alone!
> > > > 
> > > > thanks for your attention.
> > > 
> > > You can already get that via 'make DESTDIR=/ world' you know. :)  And 
> that's 
> > > shorter to type.
> > 
> > I think I'm missing something.
> > 
> > Is the only difference between "make world" and:
> > 
> > "make buildworld buildkernel installkernel installworld"
> > 
> > That make world has the order of installs flipped?
> 
> No, make world doesn't include the kernel stuff at all, and the "supported" 
> order (read, if you do it different that's fine, just don't ask for help if 
> you break something :) is to do buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, 
> reboot into single user mode, installworld.

Of course, you can just do make kernel after the build, it
cuts off a step.  But I wouldn't advise if you plan on keeping
world elsewhere.  :)

-- 
Tom Rhodes


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