Handbook: Using "make world" Chapter

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Sat May 10 22:55:17 UTC 2003


On Sat, 10 May 2003 15:23:38 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> Isn't "make world" deprecated?  The Handbook Using "make world" chapter
> never has the user give that command.  It is mentioned several times in
> quotes, which is probably confusing.  Seems like the chapter should be
> retitled (maybe "Building The World"?) and the "make world" quoted
> string should be replaced with something more descriptive.
> 

Hi Warren,

AFAIK, make world still works (least it did for me yesterday on a CURRENT
box) and don't see it becoming deprecated any time soon.

Honestly, I don't see how its confusing.  Perhaps if we discussed make world
throughout the entire document, but gave the commands for buildworld, that
would be a problem.  What do you think would be better in terms of 'more
descriptive'?

Thanks,

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Tom Rhodes



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