From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Oct 6 15:46:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6555315794 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:45:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA28813; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 23:43:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 23:43:03 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Joel Sutton , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux convert... Message-ID: <19991006234303.A28145@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Alfred Perlstein on Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 01:20:26AM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 01:20:26AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Ah, you aren't familiar with the FreeBSD much hyped > (or maybe not hyped enough... hrm) "make world" facility. > > http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html For future reference: the version of this that's now in the Handbook is the canonical version. The URL above will (this weekend) be replaced with a pointer to the Handbook. N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message