On 3/14/2012 11:11 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: > On 03/14/2012 11:05 AM, gene heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:04:37 AM Mark Wendt did opine: >> >>> On 03/14/2012 02:01 AM, gene heskett wrote: >>> >>>> On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 01:58:58 AM Kirk Wallace did opine: >>>> >>>>> <...> >>>>> >>>> One of the reasons I am fond of a 'make clean; make'. :) >>>> >>>> Cheers, Gene >>>> >>> Even better is 'make distclean; make'. ;-) >>> >>> Mark >>> >> I tried that 2 or 3 times, ate my lunch every time. Deletes too much. >> >> Cheers, Gene >> > I forgot one thing - 'make distclean, ./configure; make'. The > distclean usually deletes the Makefile created by './configure'. > > Mark > All well and good, boys and girls, but let's not forget that "clean" and "distclean" are not intrinsic functions of make. They are merely targets in the Makefile like any other.
It's become a convention to name certain targets "clean", etc., but only the Makefile writer can give them the semantics you expect. When in doubt, read the file. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
