Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:59:38 -0800 (PST) From: David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com> To: "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za> Cc: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>, <cjclark@alum.mit.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: cvsup Message-ID: <20011115105909.U44499-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIEEIGDOAA.patrick@mip.co.za>
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > 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?!? > > Patrick. make clean goes through all of the Makefiles in /usr/src and calls "clean" for each of them. rm -rf just removes all of the files without having to be told which files to remove. It's probably going to be faster. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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