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From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.1.0-R: great work!!!
Date: 29 Nov 1995 16:01:20 GMT
Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants
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In article <DInsqu.E2z@ritz.mordor.com>,
Chris Mauritz <ritz@ritz.mordor.com> wrote:
> What exactly does "make world" do?  

It recompiles and  installs everything.  Some  tools  are rebuilt twice  or
thrice in order to  get all the static  and dynamic programs compiled  with
the right version of all the includes/libraries.

/usr/src is 120 MB and /usr/obj is about 60 or 70 MB.
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