From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 9 15:57:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05220 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 15:57:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05213 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 15:57:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22207; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 15:57:28 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd022178; Wed Sep 9 15:57:26 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA06066; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 15:57:22 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809092257.PAA06066@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: E-problem To: obrien@NUXI.com Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 22:57:22 +0000 (GMT) Cc: abial@nask.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980909104800.A2403@nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at Sep 9, 98 10:48:00 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Perhaps we need yet another target, something like 'reallyclean'... The > > stale .depend files have long standing tradition of plaguing unsuspecting > > users... > > try ``make cleandepend'' or ``make cleandir'' Or even the marvelous new idea of patching Makefiles to explicitly state dependencies so that .depend isn't necessary. Oh, wait. That's a "marvelous old idea" from the first day "make" was released for public use in the late 70's. It's constantly amazing to me how long a software project can run, and *still* not have working source dependency relationships all nicely worked out in advance... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message