From owner-cvs-all Wed Jun 12 15:24:36 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B7AA37B405; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:24:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 5FE9EAE2AC; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:24:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:24:29 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Martin Blapp Cc: Martin Blapp , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/openoffice/files patch-chaos::util::makefile.mk patch-configmgr::util::makefile.mk patch-connectivity::source::drivers::adabas::makefile.mk patch-connectivity::so Message-ID: <20020612222429.GB67925@elvis.mu.org> References: <20020612215351.GA67925@elvis.mu.org> <20020613000645.T34000-100000@levais.imp.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020613000645.T34000-100000@levais.imp.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Martin Blapp [020612 15:11] wrote: > > Hi Alfred, > > > Doesn't the build offer a "noclean" option? > > Heh. Of course it does ;-). It is even the default behaviour. The port never > cleans it files. It uses IMHO a very stupid build system. When it does make > something, it touches a file. If the file exists, this module is skipped. > > And it seems that .obj files are created for the object files itself. If > the .obj Files exist, the object is not built again, even if the .o is missing. It seems like a script or target to clean out those files would solve your problem no? I don't know, I'm just suprised that they chose to use make(1) when they're making it useless by not supporting incremental rebuild. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message