Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 14:20:08 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Paul A. Howes" <pahowes@fair-ware.com>, <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Question about the "make clean" target.. Message-ID: <003c01c07e5f$02362670$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <BCEFKOJHNDEAJONMKMHEMEBFCGAA.pahowes@fair-ware.com>
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[ Please use plain text when posting to mailing lists ] > It appears that when I perform a "make clean" for a given port, > this target is executed for all of the dependencies of that port. > I was under the impression that "make clean-depends" was used > for this purpose. Am I wrong? 'clean-depends' is used to clean dependencies. 'clean' removes work/ _and_ also cleans dependences, unless NOCLEANDEPENDS is set. > Also, The Handbook refers to a > "make distclean" target for ports, which I do not see listed in the > "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk" makefile. Was this target deprecated > at some earlier point in time? No, this target is present (around line 2250), but isn't documented in the list of targets near the beginning of the file. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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