Open Office - installation problem

[Danny MacMillan]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 21:37:36 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> 
wrote:

> I'm expecting a reply from Joshua or other folks to my
> posting whether I can stop running 'make clean' the
> ports trees in the mid-way.  In doing so it won't
> damage the OS.  After clarification I shall install
> 'automake' first. then install/upgrade to
> 'ORBit-0.5.17_2' and then install OOo 1.1.1

You should be able to stop the 'make clean' with no ill effects.  If you 
=really= want to clean your whole ports tree, run:

make -DNOCLEANDEPENDS clean

in the /usr/ports directory.  It should go about a thousand times faster.

-- 
Danny