From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Masterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: INSTALL-CVS Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 16:38:58 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <16095.54418.556000.762474@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <16086.31800.692970.193443@nick.uklinux.net> <16090.26460.514633.853505@nick.uklinux.net> <200306041806.h54I6L0e026749@rum.cs.yale.edu> <16094.23674.647000.848778@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <200306042100.h54L01gs027255@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054856366 21955 80.91.224.249 (5 Jun 2003 23:39:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:39:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 06 01:39:22 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19O4KI-0005hh-00 for ; Fri, 06 Jun 2003 01:39:22 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19O4ca-0006rb-00 for ; Fri, 06 Jun 2003 01:58:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19O4M2-0006ex-7K for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 19:41:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19O4KL-0005dk-Ch for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 19:39:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19O4KC-0005Mo-Dd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 19:39:16 -0400 Original-Received: from boden.synopsys.com ([204.176.20.19]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19O4Jz-0005A4-Ig; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 19:39:03 -0400 Original-Received: from crone.synopsys.com (us01-fw2-ext.synopsys.com [204.176.21.194]) by boden.synopsys.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B38B4DC27; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 16:39:00 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from DMASTER-LAP.synopsys.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by crone.synopsys.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA19867; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 16:38:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under Emacs 21.1.1 Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14804 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14804 >>>>> Richard Stallman writes: > Perhaps disks are big enough nowadays that people don't need > to delete their tar files. Maybe that means `make clean' is > less needed than it was 15 years ago. Well, deleting a tar file is not often a big deal as it's probably on a backup tape or in a snapshot directory or can easily be downloaded again. Because 'make' is timestamp based, 'make clean' is *sometimes* necessary to get something rebuilt properly if you hack the Makefile (which is what a re-configure potentially does). The level of 'clean'ness needed is dependent upon how radically the Makefile is hacked. It's also sometimes needed because a source file is changed (as in 'cvs update'), but a target in the Makefile that depends on the source file doesn't explicitly state the dependency (usually a bug in the Makefile, but sometimes purposely done). -- David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc. Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA