Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 22:57:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: abial@nask.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: E-problem Message-ID: <199809092257.PAA06066@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19980909104800.A2403@nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at Sep 9, 98 10:48:00 am
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> > Perhaps we need yet another target, something like 'reallyclean'... The > > stale .depend files have long standing tradition of plaguing unsuspecting > > users... > > try ``make cleandepend'' or ``make cleandir'' Or even the marvelous new idea of patching Makefiles to explicitly state dependencies so that .depend isn't necessary. Oh, wait. That's a "marvelous old idea" from the first day "make" was released for public use in the late 70's. It's constantly amazing to me how long a software project can run, and *still* not have working source dependency relationships all nicely worked out in advance... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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