Yes, we have made many local modifications. Gladly, we had the backup. Couldn't a check be placed in the make file to ensure $INPATH is set?
-----Original Message----- From: Kay Schenk [mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 4:49 PM To: OOo Apache Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: dmake clean On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Steele, Raymond <raymond.ste...@lmco.com>wrote: > I see in the Makefile: > > clean .PHONY > > -rm -rf */$(INPATH) > -rm -rf solver/*/$(INPATH) > > I am going to make an assumption that I performed the dmake clean and > $INPATH was not set, therefore rm -rf */ was performed???? > > From: Steele, Raymond > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:58 PM > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: dmake clean > > I am not sure why, but I just did a dmake clean in ../main and once if > finished all the module directories including source was deleted. > Thankfully, I had a backup. Can anyone explain this? > > Raymond > > Hello Raymond -- Yes, an incredibly annoying thing and one I have experienced as well. If you "source" your env script and THEN do "dmake clean", only the bits generated toward the native build will disappear. The clean script does a MUCH bigger remove if you don't do that first. The first time this happened to me, I freaked a bit, but as I hadn't made any local mods, an svn update got everything back. It's good that you had a backup since I'm assuming you made local mods that you wanted to keep. The build doc needs a bit of updating to help others avoid this pitfall. Happy coding! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect." -- James Mason
