On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:21:07 +0200 "Ian D. Leroux" <idler...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015, at 07:40, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > But I am still curious about a build failing on extra files in > > DESTDIR and how to avoid it, remember this happening before in > > NetBSD but not FreeBSD. > > ./build.sh does an automatic make cleandir by default (if you don't > pass the -u option), but this does not delete files in DESTDIR (in > some cases, DESTDIR may refer to a running system, and you definitely > don't want to clean everything out of there when you tidy up your > source tree). You have to wipe out the destdir manually if there are > extra files there. (I think there's another make target for that > purpose, but it's been a few months since I've used it). Passing the -r option to ./build.sh will force a clean of DESTDIR. -- IDL