On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 21:41 +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 10 Sep 2019, at 20:14, Ian Lepore <i...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 11:01 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > > However, please do *NOT* remove the sys/*/compile directories. > > > > > > Warner > > > > Uhhh... that's interesting. I just nuked one of those on my system > > yesterday, because it had been hanging around since 2013 and I had no > > idea what was -- I just assumed the build machinery created it because > > I had accidentally done a make in a wrong directory once. > > > > So what are those directories about? I'm not used to seeing mystery > > directories appear inside a source tree. > > There's not much mystery to be found. Subversion does not warn you when you > remove the last files from a directory, and it also does not automatically > remove such empty directories, like Git. Hence, those directories tend to > stick around, because every simply forgets about them. > > With regards to those empty directories under contrib/llvm, those were > actually > imported from upstream. But since the llvm project will switch to Git soon, > this problem will automagically disappear. :-) > > -Dimitry >
I was referring specifically to the sys/*/compile directories Warner mentioned. -- Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
