Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:13:47 -0600 (MDT) | From | Thunder from the hill <> | Subject | Re: Why 'mrproper'? |
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Hi,
On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Andries Brouwer wrote: > Funny that you ask this question first now. > mrproper came in 0.99p7 > distclean came in 0.99p14 as a synonym for mrproper.
"Mr. President, this is not exactly true."
The 'distclean' target also removes your editors backup files ("*~", "#*#", "*.bak") and your patch leftovers ("*.orig", "*.rej"), notably your ".SUMS".
Thunder -- .-../../-./..-/-..- .-./..-/.-.././.../.-.-.-
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