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Re: [gpsd-dev] The carnivorous config bug
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Greg Troxel |
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Re: [gpsd-dev] The carnivorous config bug |
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Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:05:08 -0400 |
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"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> writes:
> Hal Murray <address@hidden>:
>> A) scons -c goes through the configuration stuff. Is there a reason for
>> that?
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> Yes, scons is designed to work in one pass rather than two and always
> does any configure stuff up front before building targets; clean is
> just another target. This is good for build consistency, because what
> you need to clean may depend on configure options.
So if you
scons # build
install/change your system
scons clean
then you may have leftover objects, but not any that the new config will
use?
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