what happened to make world?

[Freddie Cash]

On August 30, 2007 12:41 pm Mike Meyer wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:27:18 +0200 Pietro Cerutti <gahr at gahr.ch> wrote:
> > Max Laier wrote:
> > > On Thursday 30 August 2007, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> > >> # make world
> > >> WARNING: make world will overwrite your existing FreeBSD
> > >> installation without also building and installing a new
> > >> kernel.  This can be dangerous.  Please read the handbook,
> > >> 'Rebuilding world', for how to upgrade your system.
> > >> Define DESTDIR to where you want to install FreeBSD,
> > >> including /, to override this warning and proceed as usual.
> > >> You may get the historical 'make world' behavior by defining
> > >> HISTORICAL_MAKE_WORLD.  You should understand the implications
> > >> before doing this.
> > >>
> > >> Bailing out now...
> > >> *** Error code 1
> > >>
> > >> Stop in /usr/src.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Now, THIS is quite funny... do you really thing that a person with
> > >> - root access
> > >> - the knowledge of the existence of "make world"
> > >> needs this sort of things?
> > >>
> > >> I didn't see anything about this new-wave-of-user-friendly-bsd
> > >> going on the list.. have I missed something?
> > >
> > > And your complaint would be ... what exactly?
> >
> > I don't want my OS to treat me like a stupid.
>
> Yeah, we have Windows for that. Or if you hate MS, GNU/Linux.
>
> But there are valid reasons for wanting to do a make world (i.e. -
> you've changed make.conf options the kernel doesn't use). If it's
> going to be friendly, it should tell us how to do what we told it to
> do....

From the original post:
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Define DESTDIR to where you want to install FreeBSD,
including /, to override this warning and proceed as usual.

You may get the historical 'make world' behavior by defining
HISTORICAL_MAKE_WORLD.  You should understand the implications
before doing this.
----------

What part in there doesn't make sense?  :)  It tells you right there "how 
to do what we told it to do".

Seems like a lot of whining over nothing.
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