From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 22 08:30:14 1994 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA05379 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Dec 1994 08:30:14 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA05366 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 1994 16:29:53 GMT Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA16512; Thu, 22 Dec 1994 17:30:23 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id RAA13261 for hackers%freebsd.org@sax.de; Thu, 22 Dec 1994 17:36:26 +0100 Received: by bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (8.6.8/8.6.6) id QAA12114; Thu, 22 Dec 1994 16:57:42 +0100 From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) Message-Id: <199412221557.QAA12114@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> Subject: Re: Cleaning the compile/whatever directory before config. To: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 16:57:41 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199412221320.NAA02657@isl.cf.ac.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Dec 22, 94 01:20:56 pm X-Phone: +49-351-8141 137 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 645 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Paul Richards wrote: | | > 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. Me too. I forgot to mention: the ``CONFIG_CONT_CLOBBER'' variable (or #define) is needed when *building* config. It simply #ifdef's the `rm -r' away... -- cheers, J"org work: --- no longer --- private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)