[PD-dev] pd/src/obj files in devel?

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, james tittle wrote:

> ...I just noticed that my pd-devel pd/obj file is over 75MB's:  it's full of 
> directories named 0 to F, each containing at least 100 files named with 
> seeming random strings of letters and numbers, and the files go back at least 
> a year... ...where/why are these being generated (scons?)

Yes. Authors of scons have figured out one way to get builds to waste even 
more diskspace and to make forcing of the rebuild of a file need more than 
just removing that file. It creates a backup of that file in that huge-ass 
database with directories named 0 to F.

> and how can I get rid of 'em?

rm -rf

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