Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:18:53 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile Message-ID: <xzpeksrw3si.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20040219134104.GB14981@ip.net.ua> (Ruslan Ermilov's message of "Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:41:04 %2B0200") References: <200402162018.i1GKIQK4029731@repoman.freebsd.org> <p06020431bc58344f6847@[128.113.24.47]> <20040219134104.GB14981@ip.net.ua>
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Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Also, why "rm -rf ${.OBJDIR}/*" instead of "rm -rf ${.OBJDIR}"?
> Is it to preserve a possibly symlinked /usr/obj?
Probably because if ${.OBJDIR} is a symlink, 'rm -rf ${.OBJDIR}' will
just remove the symlink and not the actual files. A better way to
address this is with 'rm -rf ${.OBJDIR}/', which will remove the
contents of the directory the symlink points to before removing the
symlink.
DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no
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