Re: what happened to make world?

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:41:29PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:27:18 +0200 Pietro Cerutti <gahr@xxxxxxx> 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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Anyway, this change is 3 years old and you are complaining just now.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/Makefile.diff?r1=text&tr1=1.300&r2=text&tr2=1.304


Yuri

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