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Date:      Thu, 18 Sep 1997 23:59:49 -0700
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Yet Another bug in src/Makefile
Message-ID:  <19970918235949.11133@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
In-Reply-To: <199709190643.XAA10791@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>; from Satoshi Asami on Thu, Sep 18, 1997 at 11:43:20PM -0700
References:  <19970918213446.00164@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> <199709190643.XAA10791@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>

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Satoshi Asami scribbled this message on Sep 18:
>  * why should it remove /usr/include??  /usr/include is not used for the
>  * building of the resulting binaries install.. why not do a rm -rf /
>  * if you want to clean out the area your installing to... :)
>  * 
>  * of course there is good argument that the installed to area should
>  * be clean to prevent old files from contaminating a setup...  but
>  * if we start to clean out /usr/include, we should also do /{bin,sbin}
>  * /usr/{bin,share,sbin,lib,libexec} and any others that get installed...
> 
> I agree with you, but the comments at the top of src/Makefile say
> otherwise.  Should we just nuke the CLOBBER option entirely, or change 
> the rules so it will actually delete /usr/include/*?

how about moving CLOBBER into the install target of src/include/Makefile,
then it will work at the proper level...  and will work properly (with
DESTDIR="") when install runs in the inclues dir...

and probably should rename it to CLOBBERINCLUDES :)

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