From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 15 11:47:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from raven.mail.pas.earthlink.net (raven.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB17237B405 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:47:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.138.74.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.138.74] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by raven.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 164SU7-0002HD-00; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:47:41 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAFBcbe89450; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 03:38:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 03:38:37 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Patrick O'Reilly" Cc: Nils Holland , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup Message-ID: <20011115033837.A89266@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20011115121841.D4072-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from patrick@mip.co.za on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 01:33:12PM +0200 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ 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 On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 01:33:12PM +0200, 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?!? 'make clean' is much more useful when you do not have a separate object tree from the source tree. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message