Re: saving disk space after garnome build?

[Jens Bech Madsen <jbmadsen wibble dk>]

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 13:36 +0200, Riko Wichmann wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> after (partially) installing gnome using garnome, I would like to save
> disk space by removing all those source, *.o etc files which are created
> during the build. 
> However, I would like to do it in a way, that garnome still knows, which
> libs and applications are installed already, in case I want to compile a
> single application later. It seems like just having the libs installed
> is not (always?) enough to have the garnome build system see them!?
> 
> At least, that was my experience with evolution. After I compiled pieces
> or garnome (including evo), I removed all */downlowd */work */cookies
> files. However, when I re-compiled evolution some time later, it also
> recompiled all dependencies, even though they were already installed.
> 
> Is there any way to prevent this, maybe just leaving the cookies but
> remove the rest?

Yes, precisely. 

I believe the buildclean target is for this. So just run make buildclean
(you may want to test it first on a single dir/garball)

/Jens