From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 19 16:24:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7C837B6E3 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:24:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 022103F8C; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:24:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id QAA24398; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:24:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3976389A.A76FD2CD@cup.hp.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:24:10 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Ovens Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about -DNOCLEAN when building the world References: <20000720000915.B239@parish> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Ovens wrote: > > What exactly is -DNOCLEAN supposed to do when building the world? It prevents cleaning of objects that otherwise need to be rebuilt. > so it appears t still be doing a selective clean (on either > non-existent dirs or ones that have been newly created). > > What is the reason for this? Is it just a "belt and braces" action? We install binaries under the object tree. The directories in which we install these binaries will be cleaned because we don't have dependency information on them. We do not clean any object directories, so we only need to do the actual install and not the rebuild. HTH, -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message