Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:56:59 -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: <3976404B.B566470F@cup.hp.com> References: <20000720000915.B239@parish> <3976389A.A76FD2CD@cup.hp.com> <20000720005032.C239@parish>
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Mark Ovens wrote: > > I think I understand, but if /usr/obj has to be created (because it > didn't exist) does that not guarantee that it *is* clean? Or does > make(1) have no way of knowing that /usr/obj has been newly created? I didn't see an advantage of adding tests to see if files/directories actual exist before removing them. We're not saving precious time by doing that. We could prevent doing a recursive 'make clean' for all the directories if the object tree is empty. The side-effect we now have is that the source tree is cleaned is the object directory does not exist... -- 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
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