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From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Why isn't NOCLEAN the default? (was: Re: Cross-Development with NetBSD)
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Thus spake John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>:
> Make release is a very poor example b/c make release goes to great
> efforts to create a clean-room environment for a release.  make
> rerelease is quite helpful though and does do what you want to
> restart a previous release. :)  Also, make buildworld -DNOCLEAN
> isn't too shabby, though if I could do make TARGET_ARCH=alpha
> everything I would prefer that.

I have long wondered why NOCLEAN isn't the default.  There seem to
be a few cases where it doesn't DTRT for kernel builds, but it
seems a bit conservative to make incremental world builds require
that an undocumented variable be defined.  Any ideas?

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