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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


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