Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:24:10 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> To: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about -DNOCLEAN when building the world Message-ID: <3976389A.A76FD2CD@cup.hp.com> References: <20000720000915.B239@parish>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3976389A.A76FD2CD>