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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tcsi.tcs.com!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: config deletes directory Date: 19 Dec 1994 19:37:18 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3d4nde$l2@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <D10xM6.G3s@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <D10xM6.G3s@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: >Why in FreeBSD 2.0 does config delete the entire ../compile/<name> >directory? Eg: > > bash# config SPOTTISVAX > Removing old directory ../../compile/SPOTTISVAX > >This is *extremely* annoying, since it takes me nearly an hour to rebuild >on my 386. It does this now because the dependencies have never been 100% there, so people were always hanging themselves by config'ing and making in a bogus kernel directory (assuming they'd even bothered to do a `make depend' the first time at all). This admittedly severe fix sort of gets around the problem entirely. You can compile config with CONFIG_DONT_CLOBBER set and the behaviour will revert to old, but I suppose that it really should be: a) a runtime flag b) documented! :) I'll do this. Jordan