From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 15 12:46:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FEDA37B41A for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:46:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.138.74.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.138.74] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 164TPF-0005ro-00; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:46:41 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAFKkDn25598; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:46:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:46:13 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Patrick O'Reilly" Cc: Nils Holland , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup Message-ID: <20011115124613.B9851@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: 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 02:42:31PM +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 02:42:31PM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > > 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! That's where the build tools live. They actually get built (there is an object tree) and installed (there is a usr/ tree) in there. -- 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