Recovering compile after loss of power

Trey Sizemore trey at fastmail.fm
Tue Jul 6 10:51:20 PDT 2004


On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:46:14 -0500, "Dan Nelson"
<dnelson at allantgroup.com> said:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson at allantgroup.com

As an aside, what would I append to the command to likewise remove them
(I assume using some variation of the 'rm' command)?

Thanks.
-- 
  Trey Sizemore
  trey at fastmail.fm



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