what happened to make world?

[Mike Meyer]

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....

      <mike
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