From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 30 23:41:26 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 7674316A41A for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:41:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 383E913C442 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:41:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from dereel.lemis.com (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E308DDD07; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:25:36 +1000 (EST) Received: by dereel.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 761C41A988D; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:25:59 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:25:59 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Pietro Cerutti Message-ID: <20070830232559.GG82744@dereel.lemis.com> References: <46D7186D.8030508@gahr.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="B8ONY/mu/bqBak9m" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46D7186D.8030508@gahr.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-3-5346-1370 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org 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 23:41:26 -0000 --B8ONY/mu/bqBak9m Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 30 August 2007 at 21:20:13 +0200, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > # make world > WARNING: make world will overwrite your existing FreeBSD > installation, kill your cat and burn your house down... > > 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'm sure they do, especially since things have changed. There are many good reasons for this change, but it saddens me. It used to be possible to run 'make world', and indeed we advertised how easy it was. But when problems crept in, instead of fixing them, we broke 'make world' up into small pieces. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --B8ONY/mu/bqBak9m Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFG11IHIubykFB6QiMRAl/NAKCATxboT3/t+RgpbB4Hj1RbyTM4agCfTJYq aEcPzlqjuLkqPNKvScA0vkc= =iObo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --B8ONY/mu/bqBak9m--