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Date:      Tue, 7 Sep 1999 16:15:37 -0700
From:      Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net>
To:        James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make clean clobbers dependencies and that sometimes sucks :)
Message-ID:  <19990907161537.D651@norn.ca.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9909071904430.13574-100000@rac2.wam.umd.edu>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.9909071904430.13574-100000@rac2.wam.umd.edu>

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On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 07:10:09PM -0400, James Howard wrote:
> I just installed CURRENT and so far everything still works, and that is
> nice.  But I have been installing a lot of stuff too from the ports
> collection.  I was building XFree86 in one window and PostgreSQL in the
> other.  It turns out that PostgreSQL has X as a dependency and I was using
> "make install distclean".  This caused my X build to get clobbered.  
> 
> Is there a workaround for this?  Could bsd.port.mk be taught not to
> clobber stuff that is being built?

'rm -rf work'

-Chris
-- 
cpiazza@home.net              cpiazza@FreeBSD.org
"One should forgive one's enemies, but not before
they are hanged."                --Heinrich Heine


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