Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:46:13 -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: <20011115124613.B9851@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIAEIJDOAA.patrick@mip.co.za>; from patrick@mip.co.za on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 02:42:31PM %2B0200 References: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIEEIGDOAA.patrick@mip.co.za> <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIAEIJDOAA.patrick@mip.co.za>
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 02:42:31PM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote:
> > From: Patrick O'Reilly [mailto:patrick@mip.co.za]
> > Sent: 15 November 2001 13:33
> >
> > 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?!?
>
> Well,
>
> I just started "make buildworld", and guess what the start of the output
> says? :
> #####
> root carrot:/usr/src# make buildworld
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> Rebuilding the temporary build tree
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> rm -rf /usr/obj/usr/src/i386
> #####
>
> So, I guess make does it for you, at least in theory!
That's where the build tools live. They actually get built (there is
an object tree) and installed (there is a usr/ tree) in there.
--
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| cjclark@jhu.edu
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