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Re: Make Clean accidentaly deleting files?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ted Lemon)
Tue Apr 25 17:07:18 1995

To: mikek@efn.org (Mike Kaufman)
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "25 Apr 1995 12:11:08 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 13:47:56 -0700
From: Ted Lemon <mellon@vix.com>


> >	One thing I noticed: make clean removes files in util/et that 
> >it's not supposed to be removing... and you can't rebuild any more until 
> >you restore these files.  Off the top of my head, I think one of these 
> >poor files is util/et/et_c.lex, but there is definitely more than one 
> >file.  A real pain... !!!  I usually end up starting from scratch if I 

This happens because make tries to delete the copies of these files
that it's taken from the master tree; if you build in the master tree,
it assumes that it can still delete them.

> I am receiving a parse error in std_rqs.c:1 before 'ssu00001'.  I am
> wondering if this could be due to files being accidentally deleted. 
> 
> Does anyone know of the other files being deleted by make clean?

There are (I think) four files affected - three in util/et and one in
util/ss.   I'm pretty sure none of them could have caused that
particular error.

			       _MelloN_

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