On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 12:31:39PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
>
> >On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 11:43:42 -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> >
> >>That does not make the build process remove the files from your DESDIR!
> >
> >Actually, it does. See postinstall-fix-obsolete target in the
> >top-level Makefile. We do it as part of "distribution" target right
> >before doing checkflist.
>
> Yes, but not if you do UPDATE=YES ... :)
>
> At least, it never has done so for me.
I'm fairly sure it actually does. I typically run builds with -u set, and
they usually succeed even with very old build directories (which surely
have obsolete files). I say usually because the build very often breaks
because other mistakes, grgrgrgr.
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Julio M. Merino Vidal <
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