Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 18:54:53 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte), freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: de driver problem Message-ID: <199905140154.SAA10510@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <19990513102009.A16239@nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at "May 13, 1999 10:20:09 am"
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> > > If ``make cleandir'' is leaving some cruft in any form behind anyplace > > > in the build tree things are broken. > > > > Sounds very reasonable to me. Running the same command twice to get > > things really clean sounds suspicious ;-) > > Let me explain ``make cleandir'' then. Perhaps you missed the ``as the original author of make cleandir'' in my posting. I wrote it in the days of the 386BSD patchkit. I _know_ what it was meant to do, and it is _NOT_ doing what it is suppose to do!!! > *IF* you have a /usr/obj/usr/src/ tree, then ``make cleandir'' will clean > that tree out. Thus if somehow you have junk in /usr/src/, it will not > get cleaned out. On the second run of ``make cleandir'' it will notice > that /usr/obj/ is empty and assume you were building "in-place" and clean > out /usr/src/. This is what is happening now, it is not what should be happening. The orignal ``make cleandir'' would clean both the object tree and the source tree of all remanants of any files created by any and all make commands. The brokenness occured when the obj symlinks where removed from the src tree and cleandir was rewritten. > > cd /usr/src ; make cleandir ; make cleandir > > solves weird build problems much of the time. BROKEN! Thats all I have to say. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD http://www.aai.dnsmgr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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