Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 20:46:53 +0100 (BST) From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Never ending 'make clean' in kde port? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810112045210.3979-100000@caladan.tdx.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19981011213443.08052@follo.net>
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On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > What I did notice though, was a 'make clean' from /usr/ports/x11/kde never > > ends, it goes through a continous cycle of cleaning qt, gmake, Mesa-3.0, > > XFree86-3.3.2 (twice!), giflib, jpeg - and then back to qt... > However, are you _sure_ it was an endless loop? KDE does a pretty > large series of cleans that look like they may be looping, but in my > experience it terminate after a short while (as it is just cleaning > out the same dependencies through multiple ports)... Nope, your right - I let it run again, it wasn't quite endless - just 60+ lines... Following the files through I think I can see what's happening, dependants that depend on stuff that's already depended on (but gets cleaned again anyway)... ;-) Not quite a mess, just a bit convoluted <G> Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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