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From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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Subject: Re: 'make world' dying in sbin/atm/atm
In-Reply-To: <199809172009.GAA31890@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Sep 18, 98 06:09:14 am"
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:49:40 +0200 (CEST)
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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

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