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| author | Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> | 2025-05-25 16:08:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> | 2025-05-25 16:18:15 +0000 |
| commit | 49fd622cc34c689eb95506eee013ac1268579590 (patch) | |
| tree | 4e1b1012a0134d336abaa9dd9ede13e159bfb50a | |
| parent | a78cc8f3a28574cba00076caaef709b98289cef8 (diff) | |
developers-handbook: Correct command to build entire OS
`make world` and `make buildworld` do not build the kernel, so to
actually compile "the entire operating system" the appropriate command
is `make buildworld buildkernel`.
Reported by: olce
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/content/en/books/developers-handbook/tools/_index.adoc | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/content/en/books/developers-handbook/tools/_index.adoc b/documentation/content/en/books/developers-handbook/tools/_index.adoc index 608851ecc7..bcae63ad03 100644 --- a/documentation/content/en/books/developers-handbook/tools/_index.adoc +++ b/documentation/content/en/books/developers-handbook/tools/_index.adoc @@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ In other words, this is the rule which tells make how to re-compile [.filename]# So, when you type `make`, it will make sure that [.filename]#foo# is up to date with respect to your latest changes to [.filename]#foo.c#. This principle can be extended to [.filename]#Makefile#'s with hundreds of targets-in fact, on FreeBSD, -it is possible to compile the entire operating system just by typing `make buildworld` at the top level directory in the src tree. +it is possible to compile the entire operating system just by typing `make buildworld buildkernel` at the top level directory in the src tree. Another useful property of makefiles is that the targets do not have to be programs. For instance, we could have a make file that looks like this: |