On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:08:50PM -0600, Clyde Forrester wrote:
> I think that the book's instructions place those dummy files rather
> specifically,
Well, not really. The instructions take place relative to your current
working directory, which, depending on how you view it, may or may not
be t
Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> I think what he meant was that the removal of the dummy.c file and its
> fellows is spurious considering that, depending on how you look at it,
> they are produced inside the gcc-build dir.
>
> But again, since the book doesn't tell you when to remove the build and
> source
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Clyde Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> So, what I meant was: why bother cleaning dummy.c, a.out, and dummy.log
> out of gcc-build before I remove all of gcc-build anyway?
I guess there's no really good reason, but it guards against the
possibility wher
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:19:38AM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Clyde Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > At the end of Chapter 6.12. I gave the following commands:
> > rm -v dummy.c a.out dummy.log
> > cd ..
> > rm -rf gcc-4.1.2
> > rm -rf gcc-build
> >
>
Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Clyde Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> At the end of Chapter 6.12. I gave the following commands:
>> rm -v dummy.c a.out dummy.log
>> cd ..
>> rm -rf gcc-4.1.2
>> rm -rf gcc-build
>>
>> Did I just dust, vacuum, and mop before
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Clyde Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At the end of Chapter 6.12. I gave the following commands:
> rm -v dummy.c a.out dummy.log
> cd ..
> rm -rf gcc-4.1.2
> rm -rf gcc-build
>
> Did I just dust, vacuum, and mop before demolishing the building?
> I supp
At the end of Chapter 6.12. I gave the following commands:
rm -v dummy.c a.out dummy.log
cd ..
rm -rf gcc-4.1.2
rm -rf gcc-build
Did I just dust, vacuum, and mop before demolishing the building?
I suppose I can write it off as developing good habits, but sometimes I
wonder.
Or did I miss somethin
