From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 22 05:22:39 1994 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id FAA00311 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Dec 1994 05:22:39 -0800 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA00305 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 1994 13:22:34 GMT Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA02657; Thu, 22 Dec 1994 13:20:57 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199412221320.NAA02657@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Cleaning the compile/whatever directory before config. To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 13:20:56 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199412220928.KAA08693@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> from "J Wunsch" at Dec 22, 94 10:28:29 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 638 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In reply to J Wunsch who said > > As Ollivier ROBERT wrote: > | > | Is is necessary now ? I know it used to be and wonder if we can skip it > | now... > > I've always been bothered by this. I think, setenv CONFIG_DONT_CLOBBER > or so would be of great help for you... I really hate it. I make my own mind up to nuke my old config when I think it's necessary. Except, I can't anymore. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Phone: +44 1222 874000 x5958 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK