On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:41:29PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:27:18 +0200 Pietro Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > -- > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.mired.org/consulting.html > Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.
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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