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Date: Sun, 25 May 2025 16:18:23 UTC
The branch main has been updated by emaste:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=49fd622cc34c689eb95506eee013ac1268579590
commit 49fd622cc34c689eb95506eee013ac1268579590
Author: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-05-25 16:08:54 +0000
Commit: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-05-25 16:18:15 +0000
developers-handbook: Correct command to build entire OS
`make world` and `make buildworld` do not build the kernel, so to
actually compile "the entire operating system" the appropriate command
is `make buildworld buildkernel`.
Reported by: olce
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
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documentation/content/en/books/developers-handbook/tools/_index.adoc | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/documentation/content/en/books/developers-handbook/tools/_index.adoc b/documentation/content/en/books/developers-handbook/tools/_index.adoc
index 608851ecc7..bcae63ad03 100644
--- a/documentation/content/en/books/developers-handbook/tools/_index.adoc
+++ b/documentation/content/en/books/developers-handbook/tools/_index.adoc
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ In other words, this is the rule which tells make how to re-compile [.filename]#
So, when you type `make`, it will make sure that [.filename]#foo# is up to date with respect to your latest changes to [.filename]#foo.c#.
This principle can be extended to [.filename]#Makefile#'s with hundreds of targets-in fact, on FreeBSD,
-it is possible to compile the entire operating system just by typing `make buildworld` at the top level directory in the src tree.
+it is possible to compile the entire operating system just by typing `make buildworld buildkernel` at the top level directory in the src tree.
Another useful property of makefiles is that the targets do not have to be programs.
For instance, we could have a make file that looks like this: