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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 12:54:06 -0800
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Zero Sum <count@shalimar.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Buildworld failure of STABLE as of 18:00 CET 2000-11-03
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On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:30:28PM +1100, Zero Sum wrote:
> Maybe I am too old, but the thought of "Make" with mutating targets like
> that gives me the shudders.

It doesn't.
 
> The thought of "make <label>" doing two different things, different
> purposes depending on the iteration number is aestheticly disgusting.

It doesn't really.  ``make cleandir'' cleans everything known to be
generated in the "obj" directory.  This includes .depend, tag files,
.o's, .a's, etc...  When you have a /usr/obj/ tree, your "obj" tree is in
there.  If you have a ./obj/ then that is your "obj" tree.
``make cleandir'' removes the "obj" tree when it is /usr/obj/.  If there
is no /usr/obj/ or ./obj/, then `.' is your "obj" directory.

So the only thing that is possibly different between runs of
``make cleandir'' is the definition of ${OBJDIR}.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
          GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX


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