Errant reference to "make world"

Marc Fonvieille blackend at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 29 17:42:35 UTC 2003


On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:27:48PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
> > 
> > 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. 
> 
> The problem is that "make world" is both a set of instructions, and a
> link.  Could we change the link text to read:
> 
>   "You should at least <install a new kernel and rebuild the world> the
>    first time through..."
> 
> To avoid confusing commands with descriptive text?  I agree that the
> instructions in the handbook are quite sufficient on the linked page.
>

I agree with your suggestion.  If no objection I will fix the link text
in few hours.

Marc



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