From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 15 4:40:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mip.co.za (puck.mip.co.za [209.212.106.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7733237B434 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 04:39:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from patrick (patrick.mip.co.za [10.3.13.181]) by mip.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA91212; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:38:12 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from patrick@mip.co.za) From: "Patrick O'Reilly" To: "Nils Holland" , Cc: Subject: RE: cvsup Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:42:31 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Patrick O'Reilly [mailto:patrick@mip.co.za] > Sent: 15 November 2001 13:33 > > Nils and Crist, > > thanks for your help. > > Forgive me for being pedantic, but my curiosity is getting the > better of me; What is the role of "make clean" if "rm -rf > /usr/obj/*" will do the trick? Or perhaps these two things are > totally unrelated?!? Well, I just started "make buildworld", and guess what the start of the output says? : ##### root carrot:/usr/src# make buildworld -------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Rebuilding the temporary build tree -------------------------------------------------------------- rm -rf /usr/obj/usr/src/i386 ##### So, I guess make does it for you, at least in theory! Regards, Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message