From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Feb 2 16: 8:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat198.40.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.198.40]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC38141CB for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 16:08:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA25431 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 20:08:23 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 20:08:23 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: cd /usr/ports;make clean ... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Just curious, but would it be that difficult to add code to 'make clean' that checks for a 'work' directory before actually going through the process? Periodically, I clean it all out, and I know I've never built anything under '/usr/ports/chinese', so why bother cleaning all the dependencies for something that hasn't needed it: ===> chinese/xemacs ===> Cleaning for zh-arphicttf-2.11 ===> Cleaning for xtt-common-1.3.0 ===> Cleaning for freetype-1.3 ===> Cleaning for gmake-3.78.1 ===> Cleaning for XFree86-3.3.6 ===> Cleaning for perlftlib-1.2 ===> Cleaning for ja-p5-jcode.pl-2.10 ===> Cleaning for freetype-1.3 ===> Cleaning for gmake-3.78.1 ===> Cleaning for XFree86-3.3.6 ===> Cleaning for XFree86-3.3.6 ===> Cleaning for XFree86-3.3.6 ===> Cleaning for zh-xcin-2.5.2b4 ===> Cleaning for zh-kcfonts-1.05 ===> Cleaning for XFree86-3.3.6 ===> Cleaning for zh-libtabe-0.1b8 ===> Cleaning for db-2.7.7 ===> Cleaning for gmake-3.78.1 ===> Cleaning for XFree86-3.3.6 ===> Cleaning for db-2.7.7 ===> Cleaning for gettext-0.10.35 ===> Cleaning for libtool-1.3.3 ===> Cleaning for XFree86-3.3.6 ===> Cleaning for gmake-3.78.1 ===> Cleaning for jpeg-6b ===> Cleaning for png-1.0.5 ===> Cleaning for xpm-3.4k ===> Cleaning for XFree86-3.3.6 ===> Cleaning for zh-xemacs-20.4 Just a thought, its not something that one tends to do often, but it would sure speed things up... Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message