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List:       freebsd-stable
Subject:    Re: cvsup
From:       "David O'Brien" <obrien () FreeBSD ! ORG>
Date:       1999-09-03 17:36:34
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> I have found that
> 
> 	make depend && make && make install
> 
> will work most of the time.  Any reason why I shouldn't be using
> this...?

It would screw you if this was your procedure in -CURRENT. 
``make world'' handles bootstraping issues (when interfaces change) that
the above doesn't.  ``make world'' 1st builds a minimal set of bootstrap
utils (statically at that), and then uses those (which will support any
new interfaces) to build the complete sources.


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