From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Sep 7 16:16:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from norn.ca.eu.org (cr965240-b.abtsfd1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.19.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1616614CBF for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 16:16:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpiazza@norn.ca.eu.org) Received: by norn.ca.eu.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 643D57BB; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 16:15:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 16:15:37 -0700 From: Chris Piazza To: James Howard Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make clean clobbers dependencies and that sometimes sucks :) Message-ID: <19990907161537.D651@norn.ca.eu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 07:10:09PM -0400, James Howard wrote: > I just installed CURRENT and so far everything still works, and that is > nice. But I have been installing a lot of stuff too from the ports > collection. I was building XFree86 in one window and PostgreSQL in the > other. It turns out that PostgreSQL has X as a dependency and I was using > "make install distclean". This caused my X build to get clobbered. > > Is there a workaround for this? Could bsd.port.mk be taught not to > clobber stuff that is being built? 'rm -rf work' -Chris -- cpiazza@home.net cpiazza@FreeBSD.org "One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged." --Heinrich Heine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message