From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 16 18:03:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA00576 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:03:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from friley-186-113.res.iastate.edu (friley-186-113.res.iastate.edu [129.186.186.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00446 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:02:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mystify@friley-186-113.res.iastate.edu) Received: from friley-186-113.res.iastate.edu (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by friley-186-113.res.iastate.edu (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA26511; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 19:58:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mystify@friley-186-113.res.iastate.edu) Message-Id: <199809170058.TAA26511@friley-186-113.res.iastate.edu> To: John Birrell cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'make world' dying in sbin/atm/atm In-reply-to: Message from John Birrell of "Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:06:40 +1000." <199809162206.IAA06055@cimlogic.com.au> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 19:58:27 -0500 From: Patrick Hartling Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Birrell wrote: } > >My world build (make -DNOAOUT -DNOCLEAN world, /usr/obj clean, fairly fresh } ^ } | } The problem here is -----------------+ } } People mistakenly believe that they can use -DNOCLEAN if /usr/obj is } clean. That is not so. The build behaves differently. I would prefer } the build to test if the objdir is clean and not do the recursive } clean. Yes, that seems to have fixed things up nicely. Thank you for pointing out my error. Now I understand why no one else was having this problem (I had suspected pilot error but hadn't considered this was the source). I will definitely not make this mistake again. -Patrick Patrick L. Hartling | Research Assistant, ICEMT mystify@friley-186-113.res.iastate.edu | SE Lab - 1117 Black Engineering http://www.public.iastate.edu/~oz/ | http://www.icemt.iastate.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message