From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 7 15:23:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA27833 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 15:23:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA27822 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 15:23:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA03020 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 00:23:31 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id AAA11604; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 00:07:39 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971008000738.NZ55957@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 00:07:38 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Driver Development References: <19971007185228.10677@lemis.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19971007185228.10677@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Oct 7, 1997 18:52:28 +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Greg Lehey wrote: (simple make dependency question) > It *should* be. But then, it *should* be possible to do this all the > time, without a 'make clean'. It is. Cleaning the compile directory is almost an anachronism, except of a few -D switches you still see when compiling your kernel. j@uriah 155% uname -v FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #225: Sun Oct 5 22:24:57 MET DST 1997 \ ^^^^^ bin@uriah.heep.sax.de:/usr/src/sys/compile/URIAH (Hint: the cleanout of the compile directory has long since been removed from my source tree. Fortunately, CVS keeps track of locally modified files, so i'm not afraid this would ever enter my source for config(8) again at all. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)