>: yes, the latter case will fail.  sorry, i wasn't clear.
>: unfortunately, the lastter case is exactly what build.sh uses to clean
>: out the objdir (and destdir).
>
>build.sh doesn't delete the objdir, because there are too many different
>possibilities about where the objdir(s) are.  It relies on the top-level
>cleandir to do that job.

*thwap*  you're right.  it cleans out the tool dir and the dest dir.

>In this case, the user is manually deleting the objdir tree (including the
>top-level directory).

of course.  like me.  :)

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