Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:49:10 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu, sprice@hiwaay.net Cc: current@freebsd.org, richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: -current failed Message-ID: <199610280149.MAA08278@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Doing a make world automatically does the make obj for you. Make cleandir
>> kills them. If there isn't a obj directory avaialble when the make
>> starts, then the obj's fall into the source directories. One very common
>> error is the do make clean, and think your objs are really clean. They
>> aren't, the .depend files survive, and cause grief.
Use `make clean cleandepend' to clean everything. If you use a separate
object tree, then it is easy to check that this worked (there should be
no files except directories in the object tree).
>Attached is a patch to /usr/share/mk/bsd.dep.mk that I use to get rid
>of the .depend file when make clean is done. I didn't commit it b/c I
>don't think everybody (or even the majority) wants this, but you
>might give it a try if you like the functionality.
>+CLEANFILES+= ${DEPENDFILE}
This is faster, because `make clean cleandepend' traverses the tree twice.
Bruce
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