Port installation stopped - NEXT Step?

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jaymax

When an installation from the ports stop, say - because of a dependency SNAFU, and that SNAFU is corrected - the next step hopefully is to continue the installation.
I've seen the following recommended:
  1. make clean
  2. make deinstall
  3. make install clean
Doesn't the make clean step remove all the object files already compiled, although not linked etc?
Frequently, the deinstall step is skipped as the port /(pkg) is not yet installed, and then the make install clean seems as if the whole process is restarted again.

Is my thinking correct?

I have been installing a program from the ports, it's been running for several hours, supposedly in the make mode; then it encountered
Code: 
Checking for system tdb >= 1.3.6  : 17:47:20 runner pkg- config --errors-to-stdout --print-errors "tdb >= 1.3.6" --cflags --libs tdb
not found
ERROR: System library tdb of version 1.3.6 not found, and bundling disabled
[104222 refs]
===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.

tdb 1.3.7 was in the ports, which I installed

Now, I'd like to continue, 'without remaking the wheel' so far completed - directive appreciated!

Thanks!
 
You told us not which port you tried to install , I guess net/samba. But there different versions of it.
I think your system is not full updated. You also not said which FreeBSD version and platform.
(If it is net/samba it never needs hours to compile).
 
My apologies on the omissions, it slipped me - it was net/samba42 ; FreeBSD version
Code: 
FreeBSD MACH 10.2-BETA1 FreeBSD 10.2-BETA1 #0: Mon Jul 20 14:22:20 PDT 2015
on an i386 platform.

I did do a portupgrade just before the installation, make all-depends-list and make missing and did run several hours. Anyway the question was intended as a general tactical question.

I did omit the make clean and the deinstall step, just used the make install clean step and it seemed to have continued from where it left off.

Thanks!
BTW! How did you know it was net/samba ?

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