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To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
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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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