Errant reference to "make world"
Marc Fonvieille
blackend at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 29 15:56:56 UTC 2003
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:34:36AM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
>
> A co-worker of mine just wisely pointed out that the reason people keep
> shooting their feet by using "make world" instead of the documented
> upgrade procedure is that we keep telling them to do so (doh):
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html
>
> Before compiling FreeBSD-CURRENT, read the Makefile in /usr/src
> carefully. You should at least run a make world the first time
> through as part of the upgrading process. Reading the FreeBSD-CURRENT
> mailing list and /usr/src/UPDATING will keep you up-to-date on other
> bootstrapping procedures that sometimes become necessary as we move
> toward the next release.
>
the "make world" words are a link to
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
which is very well documented, it seems difficult to do more, however
maybe some parts need a rewording.
> I believe we have a nice chunky section in the Developer's Handbook on
> "The One Right Way", which talks about breaking out kernel and world
> builds, etc. Could we just make this a cross-reference to the One Right
> Way?
>
It's what the previous link does; I think the Handbook must contain the
whole procedure to build/install a new system.
Marc
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