Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Question about config changes with make build

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

William Gilmore wrote:
> Alright, Alright, Alright, I RTFM but I just wasn't smart enough to put it together.  I now realized that there are tmp/.done_* files that I much delete to have make perform what I want.

Aaargh, I just wrote an answer... ;-)

> But now my question is, why is it done this way instead of depending upon the traditional make functionality for controlling this.  I am sure that someone thought this out before implementing and I want to make sure that understand the advantages.

Yes, because you can't use traditional makefiles to compile a distribution.

Heiko