Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 23:30:28 +1100 From: Zero Sum <count@shalimar.net.au> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Buildworld failure of STABLE as of 18:00 CET 2000-11-03 Message-ID: <00110623302802.51494@shalimar.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20001106041348.B10802@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <3A032D99.9345F708@ludd.luth.se> <00110609554301.41577@shalimar.net.au> <20001106041348.B10802@dragon.nuxi.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Monday 06 November 2000 23:13, you wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 09:55:43AM +1100, Zero Sum wrote: > > > ``cd /usr/src && make cleandir && make cleandir'' is actually the > > > command you'd want to do that 100% deep steam cleaning of your source > > > tree. > > > > Why make cleandir twice? > > The first one is effectively ``rm -rf /usr/obj/</usr/src>'' as it removes > the obj dir when it exists and is empty after the cleaning. The second > run will then clean /usr/src/. "cleandir" removes .depend and other bits > that "clean" would leave behind. Maybe I am too old, but the thought of "Make" with mutating targets like that gives me the shudders. Yeah, I know, that is the way software is done nowadays, configure, buiild makefiles, make dependencies, but that's a relatively orderly process. The thought of "make <label>" doing two different things, different purposes depending on the iteration number is aestheticly disgusting. No wonder they call us "hackers". I'll dodder off into silence again..... at least until the schock wears off. Geoff -- count@shalimar.net.au Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: 4saj9iKDQR5V2dSobXRnuWBfbh74CfB/ iQA/AwUBOgakZPh4xz7LU/evEQKN1wCg1v9R8naIIfyWRpH++OLIkVEkfRQAoKZb 9+0MmcvUF71UGNCNx8qlZtlQ =JyEA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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