Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 07:21:23 PST, John Polstra wrote: > > > Is "make clean" really necessary? A "make depend" ought to be > > sufficient, I would think. > > I think that's an attempt to protect people who've upgraded from STABLE > and haven't gotten used to ``config -r''?
config -r? I'd be highly suprised if this was needed at all for 99% of the time. The only time that I've been aware of it being needed was quite some time ago when there was an option that got removed - if people were using it, that option wouldn't get cleaned out from the .h files, and it caused a problem somewhere. I don't remember the specifics, it was a long time ago. The only other time I can think of where this might be needed is when the system clock gets screwed and the *.h files get future dates on them. In just about all other cases, a 'make clean' is sufficient to start the tree from scratch if there are any suspicions about old files. 'make depend' really does work, and is quite safe. Cleaning the tree should be a very rare requirement. > Ciao, > Sheldon. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
