Your build dir should absolutely never be a parent or the same as your source dir. However we should check for that in configure.
use a build dir that is a subdir of your source dir or external to it, and this will not happen. Brandon On Thu, 04/06/06 at 23:29:00 +0300, Anton Romanov wrote: > On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 22:14:55 +0200 > "Manuel Dejonghe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > in fact, it does not 'make'. it only 'cleans'. > yeah, i know > > It erases everything that 'make' could use for an incremental build, > > because some source-changes do not get detected by 'make' and so not > > rebuild properly. > of course > > If the thing you are trying out is not working as expected, 'clean' > > first, then rebuild it all. > thats what i was trying to do... > > BUT: > make clean > killed 'firmware' directory...(maybe some other source files too) > while it should remove only *.c,*.o,*.a and so on.... > > so after 'make clean' i had nothing to do but checkout from cvs.... > > --
