Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 17:16:45 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, dfr@nlsystems.com, khaled@mailbox.telia.net, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: de driver problem Message-ID: <373BDBED.3AE1742@newsguy.com> References: <199905122044.NAA03768@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote:
>
> > I periodically see this one reported, and It is always repaired
> > by the reporter making sure their tree is _really_ clean before
> > doing a make world. "Really clean" means "make cleandir" _twice_,
>
> This indicates to me, the original author of ``cleandir'', that
> something has broken the functionality that it had. This something
> is more than likely the removal of code similiar to:
>
> cd /usr/obj/{.CURDIR}; chflags -R noschg tmp; rm -rf *;
>
> before the equiv of:
> cd {.CURDIR}; ${make} clean
>
> > and complete removal of the contents of /usr/obj. _Then_ cvsup.
> > I prefer to usr CVS checkout, as it shows all the differences and
> > other turds in my source tree.
>
> If ``make cleandir'' is leaving some cruft in any form behind anyplace
> in the build tree things are broken.
Not really. The problem results from people doing subtree makes
(including cleans), which results in .o files in the source tree
instead of the object tree.
--
Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org
"Proof of Trotsky's farsightedness is that _none_ of his
predictions have come true yet."
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