From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jan 14 10:34: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from westhost15.westhost.net (westhost15.westhost.net [216.71.84.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B70F937B400 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 10:33:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from beast (h0020af68b314.ne.mediaone.net [24.91.189.27]) by westhost15.westhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA26250 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 12:43:36 -0600 From: "Paul A. Howes" To: Subject: Question about the "make clean" target.. Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 13:33:30 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0071_01C07E2E.95782BD0" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0071_01C07E2E.95782BD0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All- It appears that when I perform a "make clean" for a given port, this target is executed for all of the dependencies of that port. I was under the impression that "make clean-depends" was used for this purpose. Am I wrong? Also, The Handbook refers to a "make distclean" target for ports, which I do not see listed in the "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk" makefile. Was this target deprecated at some earlier point in time? If you respond to this posting, please CC my e-mail address, as I am not yet subscribed to this mailing list. Thank you for your time! -- Paul A. Howes pahowes@fair-ware.com ------=_NextPart_000_0071_01C07E2E.95782BD0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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It appears = that when I=20 perform a "make clean" for a given port, this target is executed for all = of the=20 dependencies of that port. I was under the impression that "make=20 clean-depends" was used for this purpose. Am I wrong? Also, = The=20 Handbook refers to a "make distclean" target for ports, which I do not = see=20 listed in the "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk" makefile. Was this = target=20 deprecated at some earlier point in time?

If you = respond to this=20 posting, please CC my e-mail address, as I am not yet subscribed to this = mailing=20 list.

Thank you for = your=20 time!

Paul A. Howes

pahowes@fair-ware.com

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