From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 14 3: 6:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C91437C6BA for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 03:06:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13D2KV-000GaY-00; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:04:23 +0200 Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:04:23 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: j mckitrick , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: better than 'make clean' Message-ID: <20000714120422.A63713@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000714045027.A2409@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000714132046.D3287@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000714132046.D3287@physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 01:20:46PM +0530 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri 2000-07-14 (13:20), Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > j mckitrick said on Jul 14, 2000 at 04:50:28: > > > > i searched my saved mail, and i can't find it. > > > > i saw a better method to delete work directories/files than make clean. > > does anyone know offhand what that was? > > rm -rf /usr/ports/*/*/work ? :-) > Takes a long time, but if you've not been doing "make clean" regularly > and have forgotten what you made last, this will do it. But "make > clean" works fine otherwise, cleans the dependencies too, I can't > imagine what would be faster. make -k clean NODEPENDS=yes Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message