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Date:      Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:24:29 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
Cc:        Martin Blapp <mbr@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/openoffice/files patch-chaos::util::makefile.mk patch-configmgr::util::makefile.mk         patch-connectivity::source::drivers::adabas::makefile.mk patch-connectivity::so
Message-ID:  <20020612222429.GB67925@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020613000645.T34000-100000@levais.imp.ch>
References:  <20020612215351.GA67925@elvis.mu.org> <20020613000645.T34000-100000@levais.imp.ch>

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* Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> [020612 15:11] wrote:
> 
> Hi Alfred,
> 
> > Doesn't the build offer a "noclean" option?
> 
> Heh. Of course it does ;-). It is even the default behaviour. The port never
> cleans it files. It uses IMHO a very stupid build system. When it does make
> something, it touches a file. If the file exists, this module is skipped.
> 
> And it seems that .obj files are created for the object files itself. If
> the .obj Files exist, the object is not built again, even if the .o is missing.

It seems like a script or target to clean out those files would
solve your problem no?  I don't know, I'm just suprised that they
chose to use make(1) when they're making it useless by not supporting
incremental rebuild.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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