[Box Backup-dev] make clean

Stefan Norlin boxbackup-dev at fluffy.co.uk
Fri Feb 3 09:49:24 GMT 2006


>> However, if we did this, it would no longer be possible to use  
>> "make" to do an incremental rebuild of box, because "make" fails if  
>> the parcels already exist, and "make clean" is the only target that  
>> just removes them (and not the built object files). I think that  
>> "make all" should not die if the parcels already exist, but delete  
>> or overwrite them.
> 
> I never use make in the top level while developing. If you make in a  
> test/* directory, it all works as you need. make in the top level is  
> really just for people compiling it ready to actually use.

Haha (I saw this post 2 secs too late)... people like me, then... ;-)




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