Errant reference to "make world"
Mike Patterson
mpatters at cs.uwaterloo.ca
Sat Nov 29 17:09:35 UTC 2003
Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> 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.
Perhaps just re-wording the actual link using words that aren't valid
whilst in /usr/src would be sufficient?
ie, give a list of references instead:
Before compiling FreeBSD-CURRENT, read the Makefile in /usr/src
carefully. Other references are the Handbook [with a link], the
FreeBSD-CURRENT mailing list [with a link], and /usr/src/UPDATING.
Yes, I'd be willing to submit a patch for this. :-) (Although it would
be my first one.)
Mike
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