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Date:      Tue, 06 Nov 2001 23:57:21 -0000
From:      Matthew Whelan <muttley@gotadsl.co.uk>
To:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.i386 files.pc98
Message-ID:  <20011106235721.9954437B416@hub.freebsd.org>

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>The Handbook has long said,
>
>  19.4.5 Remove /usr/obj
>
>  [snip]
>
>  You can speed up the ``make world'' process, and possibly save
>  yourself some dependency headaches by removing this directory as 
>  well.

Given that the rm -r is claimed to be both faster and safer, what's the
rationale behind the Makefile doing it the long-winded way?

Matthew


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