Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:35:51 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> Cc: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile Message-ID: <20040219203551.GC98804@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpeksrw3si.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <200402162018.i1GKIQK4029731@repoman.freebsd.org> <p06020431bc58344f6847@[128.113.24.47]> <20040219134104.GB14981@ip.net.ua> <xzpeksrw3si.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 03:18:53PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > Also, why "rm -rf ${.OBJDIR}/*" instead of "rm -rf ${.OBJDIR}"?
> > Is it to preserve a possibly symlinked /usr/obj?
>
> Probably because if ${.OBJDIR} is a symlink, 'rm -rf ${.OBJDIR}' will
> just remove the symlink and not the actual files. A better way to
> address this is with 'rm -rf ${.OBJDIR}/', which will remove the
> contents of the directory the symlink points to before removing the
> symlink.
The original is better -- it can be used as a lay-person.
Several of my obj directories are owned by non-root, and using
${.OBJDIR}/* DTRT.
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