From dmurdoch at pair.com  Mon Sep 22 09:47:14 2003
From: dmurdoch at pair.com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Mon Sep 22 14:47:38 2003
Subject: [Rd] grep in version 1.8 (PR#4231)
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:08:06 +0200, Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at
wrote :

>>>>>> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 06:07:00 -0400,
>>>>>> Duncan Murdoch (DM) wrote:

>  > Yes, but then you end up doing a clean build, because it will also
>  > delete the *.o files, etc.  I don't think there's a concept of
>  > deleting files that were there yesterday but aren't there today.
>
>Yes, there is:
>
>1) Use the --delete flag when updating the sources
>2) Use a build directory that is different from your source tree, that
>   way rsync will never see the *.o et al files.

2) isn't currently possible in Windows, which I guess is another
reason we should move to a single set of makefiles, instead of
maintaining a separate set for Windows.

Duncan


[Rd] grep in version 1.8 (PR#4231)
Duncan Murdoch