From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 30 19:42:57 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E993A16A419 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:42:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: from mired.org (vpn.mired.org [66.92.153.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D70813C48E for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:42:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: (qmail 82614 invoked by uid 1001); 30 Aug 2007 19:41:30 -0000 Received: from bhuda.mired.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bhuda.mired.org (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:41:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:41:29 -0400 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070830154129.46951d54@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <46D71A16.6020005@gahr.ch> References: <46D7186D.8030508@gahr.ch> <200708302124.48899.max@love2party.net> <46D71A16.6020005@gahr.ch> Organization: Meyer Consulting X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; amd64-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.11 (Ladyburn) From: Mike Meyer Subject: Re: what happened to make world? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:42:58 -0000 On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:27:18 +0200 Pietro Cerutti 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.... http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.