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Date:      Thu, 15 Nov 2001 03:38:37 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za>
Cc:        Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvsup
Message-ID:  <20011115033837.A89266@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIEEIGDOAA.patrick@mip.co.za>; from patrick@mip.co.za on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 01:33:12PM %2B0200
References:  <20011115121841.D4072-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIEEIGDOAA.patrick@mip.co.za>

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On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 01:33:12PM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote:
> Nils and Crist,
> 
> thanks for your help.
> 
> Forgive me for being pedantic, but my curiosity is getting the better of me;
> What is the role of "make clean" if "rm -rf /usr/obj/*" will do the trick?
> Or perhaps these two things are totally unrelated?!?

'make clean' is much more useful when you do not have a separate
object tree from the source tree.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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