On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:02:20PM -0800, David Schultz wrote:
> Thus spake John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Make release is a very poor example b/c make release goes to great
> > efforts to create a clean-room environment for a release.  make
> > rerelease is quite helpful though and does do what you want to
> > restart a previous release. :)  Also, make buildworld -DNOCLEAN
> > isn't too shabby, though if I could do make TARGET_ARCH=alpha
> > everything I would prefer that.
> 
> I have long wondered why NOCLEAN isn't the default.  There seem to
> be a few cases where it doesn't DTRT for kernel builds, but it
> seems a bit conservative to make incremental world builds require
> that an undocumented variable be defined.  Any ideas?

It often causes problems during upgrades (but is usually fine when
just rebuilding a non-updated tree)

Kris

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