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Date:      Sun, 24 Sep 1995 16:27:06 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, fenner@parc.xerox.com, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel versions and config's rm -rf
Message-ID:  <199509242327.QAA04144@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199509242205.PAA01453@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Sep 24, 95 03:05:28 pm

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> > > I like this, it is far more appropriate than an rm -rf, but should be
> > > reduced even further to just ``make clean; rm *.h'' and
> > > the clean: target had better do the right things.
>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[ ... ]

> I think I covered your minor issue below quite well above.

It doesn't; otherwise the newversion and config could get by without
explicitly deleting everything.

That was my point exactly.  A partial fix that just adds more explicit
dependencies on a broken procedure (which the prepatched code is, and
which is not fixed post-patch) is a bad fix.  At best, it's work that
has been done out of order.  At worst, it's further breakage along the
same lines as the existing breakage in the dependency graph.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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