make "quickworld"? (like in DragonFly)

[Tom Alsberg]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 09:53:30AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 10:03:37AM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> > Does adding "NOCLEAN=true" to /etc/make.conf have the same effect?  

Just my two cents:

> Yes, but it's likely to attract flames because NOCLEAN does fail.  If
> you forget it's in your make.conf there's a good chance you could report
> a bug that isn't a bug a waste a bunch of developer time.

In that case, there is a bug though - namely, a bug in the Makefile.
Although this has happened to me in the past, it shouldn't happen in
normal circumstances.  The idea of Makefiles, when writing them
correctly, is that only what's affected by a change -- but everything
affected by it -- will be rebuilt in case of a change.

So there's no good reason for a make to fail unless something very odd
happened (with the timestamps, etc.) or something like this happens,
it means some dependency is missing, or some script external to the
Makefile did something wrong.

> -- Brooks

  Cheers,
  -- Tom

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