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From: Ian Kallen <ian@gamespot.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: "make world" documented?
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 11:23:17 -0700
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After updating my source trees, I'm planning on running "make world" 
-- at least that's my understanding of what's next in the upgrade 
recipe.  Is "make world" documented?  Among the benefits I hope to 
derive from upgrding, it's really important to me that sysinstall be 
updated -- the version on the 2.1 CD aparently has a bug in it that has 
prevented me from adding a second SCSI drive to the system, I'm told 
that the 2.1.5 upgrade will remedy this problem.  Anyway, I've not seen 
"make world" or other upgrade (compilation) steps laid out anywhere. 
/usr/local/bin is'nt messed with by "make world" is it?  what about 
/home and config files in /etc?
(I unsderstand already from 
http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/freebsd-faq83.html#83 that make world will
make a nice new shiney set of system binaries, what about the rest of 
the system?  will it be left alone or....?)
If "make world" or "make install" (equivalents?" are documented 
somewhere, please send me the URL.  Thanks!