On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 09:18:05AM -0800, walt wrote:
>> Yes, I had a stale 'racoon' subdirectory, thanks.  But this is
>> a line from the update script I always use:
>>
>> cvs -z3 update  -PAd src
>>
>> Shouldn't that do the right thing?  The manpage says that the
>> -P flag prunes 'empty' directories.  If the directory was not
>> empty would cvs delete it anyway?
>
> 	no, it would not.  This is why you should be using obj directories.
> Otherwise you need to remember to run 'make cleandir' _before_ updating.

The problem is that using obj directories might mean you have symlinks in 
there, which cause the same problem anyway.

 	Johnny

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