From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 28 16:46:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA10509 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 16:46:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA10371 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 16:45:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA06387; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 18:45:46 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id SAA19016; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 18:45:44 -0500 (CDT) To: chas Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which file to edit/delete for rebuilding ports ? References: <3.0.32.19980428234927.009087d0@peace.com.my> From: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 28 Apr 1998 18:45:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: chas's message of "Tue, 28 Apr 1998 23:27:33 +0800 (SGT)" Message-ID: <87vhrt7bo7.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.3/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG chas writes: > In the past with other ports, I have deleted the contents of > the /work directory and rebuilt from scratch. However, it would make clean does this for you. > be a shame to have to recompile the 2 hours of files that did > compile correctly. hmm... > I edited /work/xc/xmakefile and /work/xc/config/cf/site.def > without desired results. > > Bottomline : wondering how to force a 'make install' to forget > previous configurations whilst still being able to use any > intermediary files compiled. probably not worth the trouble. you don't know which of those compiled objects contain code whic depends on the configuration. just be happy you're not the one that has to do the compiling for two hours and have some fun--go see a movie or something. -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message