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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:06:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Rob Simmons <rsimmons@wlcg.com>
To: Peter Brezny <peter@sysadmin-inc.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Ok guru's here's another easy one for you...make clean
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You should look in the Makefile for the directory in question, that is
where the arguments to make are defined.

Robert Simmons
Systems Administrator
http://www.wlcg.com/

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Peter Brezny wrote:

> What exactly does
> 
> make clean
> 
> do inside a ports directory?
> 
> I tried man make
> /clean
> 
> but came up with nothing.
> 
> is there a good place that summarizes all the fun things you can do with
> make?
> 
> deinstall
> reinstall
> install
> build
> clean
> 
> i know all these things exist, but i don't know exactly what they do?
> 
> Peter Brezny
> SysAdmin Services Inc.
> 
> 
> 
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