Re: Why 'mrproper'?

Thunder from the hill (thunder@ngforever.de)
Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:13:47 -0600 (MDT)


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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