From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 11 12:47:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA29344 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 12:47:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA29339 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 12:47:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from localhost (kpielorz@localhost) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA04004; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 20:46:53 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 20:46:53 +0100 (BST) From: Karl Pielorz To: Eivind Eklund cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Never ending 'make clean' in kde port? In-Reply-To: <19981011213443.08052@follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > What I did notice though, was a 'make clean' from /usr/ports/x11/kde never > > ends, it goes through a continous cycle of cleaning qt, gmake, Mesa-3.0, > > XFree86-3.3.2 (twice!), giflib, jpeg - and then back to qt... > However, are you _sure_ it was an endless loop? KDE does a pretty > large series of cleans that look like they may be looping, but in my > experience it terminate after a short while (as it is just cleaning > out the same dependencies through multiple ports)... Nope, your right - I let it run again, it wasn't quite endless - just 60+ lines... Following the files through I think I can see what's happening, dependants that depend on stuff that's already depended on (but gets cleaned again anyway)... ;-) Not quite a mess, just a bit convoluted Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message