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.I INSTALL
can safely be repeated to rebuild the system from scratch.
.PP
The system uses different threading implementations on Linux 2.6 and
At the end of the build,
.I INSTALL
prints suggested settings for the environment variables
.B $PLAN9
and
.BR $PATH .
After setting those, the script
.B $PLAN9/dist/isum
will print a short summary of the installation output,
omitting the usual command chatter but preserving
compiler warnings and errors.
.PP
Plan 9 from User Space uses different threading implementations on Linux 2.6 and
later kernels than on 2.4 and earlier;
and on FreeBSD 5 and later kernels than on FreeBSD 4 and earlier.
Running binaries from one class on another will not work.
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.TP
.B \*9/man/index.html
the top-level page in the HTML version of the manual
.TP
.B \*9/install.log
logged output from the last run of
.I INSTALL
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR intro (1),
.IR cvs (1)