make world was deprecated more than two decades ago and is a bad and dangerous approach. Belatedly remove it.
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Sir when you merge this please note that I disapproved. This code is not causing any problems.
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There are a few handbook references to make world. Some of them are bad - e.g.
it is possible to compile the entire operating system just by typing make world in the appropriate directory!
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When I was a kid, I was in awe by the unbelievable simplicity and elegance of that statement.
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But that statement is not correct, it is missing "and overwrite the running system" after "compile"
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If you want to remove them from build(7) so the commit is atomic for our downstream, I have no problem resolving the conflict in my build(7) draft.
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This also needs to be in UPDATING and Relnotes, I think, since it is a breaking change of decades of behavior.