From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Aug 9 4:16:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from pawn.primelocation.net (pawn.primelocation.net [205.161.238.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7CE137BA05 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 04:16:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jedgar@fxp.org) Received: from earth (oca-c1s2-08.mfi.net [209.26.94.55]) by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11B989B04; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 07:16:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 07:16:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" X-Sender: jedgar@earth.causticlabs.com To: Brandon Fosdick Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make clean in /usr/ports In-Reply-To: <3990CC2A.B9A2EED8@glue.umd.edu> 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 On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > Why do I have to specify -DNOCLEANDEPENDS when doing a 'make clean' in > /usr/ports? Why would anyone want to clean dependencies when cleaning the entire > ports tree? Isn't that kinda redundant? Why would anyone 'make clean' in /usr/ports in the first place? Dependencies are cleaned automatically so that when a port is installed, everything that may have been built is cleaned. > > I can already hear the response..."Send a patch...". Have you actually looked at > the makefiles? I have a better chance of decphering the Iliad written in > cuneiform. > Hmmm, if you *need* to 'make clean' in /usr/ports, how about just adding "NOCLEANDEPENDS=yes" to /usr/ports/Makefile ? Index: Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.57 diff -u -r1.57 Makefile --- Makefile 2000/07/31 00:09:41 1.57 +++ Makefile 2000/08/09 11:15:55 @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ SUBDIR += x11-toolkits SUBDIR += x11-wm +NOCLEANDEPENDS= yes PORTSTOP= yes .include ----- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message