Recovering compile after loss of power

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Jul 6 09:44:15 PDT 2004


In the last episode (Jul 06), Trey Sizemore said:
> I was many hours into a kde3 complilation/installation when the power
> went out at the house.  :-(.  Is the best option here to just restart
> the 'make install clean' in the directory again?  Will it 'pick up
> where it left off'?

Yes, although check for and remove 0-byte *.o files first (find . -name
-"*.o" size 0).  I have occasionally seen them after a crash.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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