Re: Automake,cygwin: 'make clean' with libtool wrappers...

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Charles" == Charles Wilson <address@hidden> writes:

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 >> So let's make a new test case to be on the safe side.  Could you
 >> try the following and confirm it FAILs before and PASSes after
 >> your patch?

 Charles> Okay, first I'm not sure how this tests
 Charles> clean-*PROGRAMS, since it doesn't build any
 Charles> executables (on purpose).  It only builds a library.

Ooops! :)  Does the following look better?

libtool3.test
Description: this one also build a program

[...]

 Charles> The reason it fails is a longtime annoyance of mine:
 Charles> configure, while running, creates test programs called
 Charles> 'a.exe' -- not 'a.out' or 'a'. So, **configure**
 Charles> doesn't clean up after itself.  I think this is an
 Charles> autoconf bug...

I hope you're right (because Autoconf could be fixed quickly),
but it could come from libtool.m4 too.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz