Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:48:19 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Cc: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile Message-ID: <200402191248.19870.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpeksrw3si.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <200402162018.i1GKIQK4029731@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040219134104.GB14981@ip.net.ua> <xzpeksrw3si.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Thursday 19 February 2004 09:18 am, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > Also, why "rm -rf ${.OBJDIR}/*" instead of "rm -rf ${.OBJDIR}"?
> > Is it to preserve a possibly symlinked /usr/obj?
>
> Probably because if ${.OBJDIR} is a symlink, 'rm -rf ${.OBJDIR}' will
> just remove the symlink and not the actual files. A better way to
> address this is with 'rm -rf ${.OBJDIR}/', which will remove the
> contents of the directory the symlink points to before removing the
> symlink.
If /usr/obj is a symlink it should stay that way so that a user doesn't hav=
e=20
to relink it every time. Using /* is probably the best approach.
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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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