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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 08:36:20 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc: Jan Stocker <jstocker@tzi.de>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: sometimes make install does nothing
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Jan Stocker <jstocker@tzi.de> [020417 06:33] wrote:
> > sometime a 'make install' does completely nothing. This leads that
> > dependencies weren't installed or i've to call the make again. Mostly
> > this happens while defining install and clean on the commandline
> > together.
> > Have a look at the following output. The port wasnt installed before
> > (and no work directory exists!)

[ ... ]
> > It happens here and there and not all the time, i cant find a common
> > part when or where it happens...
> 
> Check for a ".install_done" file in the "work" dir.  I think that's
> what can cause this.  I think the answer is to use "reinstall" instead
> of "install" or to "make clean" first.

Shouldn't ".install_done" be dependent on the install target
timestamps, so that if they are newer, that the install happens
anyway?

-- Terry

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