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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>

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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


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