Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:49:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'make world' dying in sbin/atm/atm Message-ID: <199809172049.WAA07724@ocean.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <199809172009.GAA31890@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Sep 18, 98 06:09:14 am"
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According to Bruce Evans: > This belief is not mistaken in the usual self-hosting case. It is mistaken > in the cross-compile case. Switching to elf requires some cross-compiling. > > >Definitely! I mean, why on earth is the make world doing a recursive clean > >of an empty directory? That always comfused me. At every directory that > > Because it is necessary. An empty canonical obj directory just means that > the the object tree under /usr/obj (or wherever) doesn't need cleaning. > The object directory for every directory in the source tree still > needs cleaning since it may have the following junk in it: > object files (harmless?) > .depend (harmful?) > obj link to a non-canonical place (harmful) > obj subdirectory (harmful) Doh! :( Oh well.... /Mikael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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