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Re: INSTALL-CVS
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David Masterson |
Subject: |
Re: INSTALL-CVS |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Jun 2003 16:38:58 -0700 |
>>>>> Richard Stallman writes:
> Perhaps disks are big enough nowadays that people don't need
> to delete their tar files. Maybe that means `make clean' is
> less needed than it was 15 years ago.
Well, deleting a tar file is not often a big deal as it's probably on
a backup tape or in a snapshot directory or can easily be downloaded
again. Because 'make' is timestamp based, 'make clean' is *sometimes*
necessary to get something rebuilt properly if you hack the Makefile
(which is what a re-configure potentially does). The level of
'clean'ness needed is dependent upon how radically the Makefile is
hacked. It's also sometimes needed because a source file is changed
(as in 'cvs update'), but a target in the Makefile that depends on the
source file doesn't explicitly state the dependency (usually a bug in
the Makefile, but sometimes purposely done).
--
David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, (continued)
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, David Masterson, 2003/06/04
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, Stefan Monnier, 2003/06/04
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, David Masterson, 2003/06/04
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, Stefan Monnier, 2003/06/04
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, David Masterson, 2003/06/04
- Re: INSTALL-CVS, Richard Stallman, 2003/06/05
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- Re: INSTALL-CVS, Andreas Schwab, 2003/06/05