Recovering compile after loss of power

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Jul 6 09:46:16 PDT 2004


In the last episode (Jul 06), Dan Nelson said:
> 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.

Typo.  That command should be:  find . -name "*.o" -size 0

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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