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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 22:10:09 +0100
From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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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In-Reply-To: <005901c0662a$54075480$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com>; from peter@sysadmin-inc.com on Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:02:34PM -0800
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On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:02:34PM -0800, 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?
> 

These are all things that are defined by the relevant Makefiles, so exactly
what they do, or if they work at all, depend on the makefile.
Usually 'make clean' removes all the files that were created by a previous
run of make but the details can vary. 

For ports you can read about the available targets and what they do using
'man ports'


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Erik Trulsson
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