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Re: cleaning in conditional subdirs
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Tom Tromey |
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Re: cleaning in conditional subdirs |
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23 Dec 2000 13:35:58 -0700 |
>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Robbins <address@hidden> writes:
Steve> [Apologies if this has been covered before -- I couldn't figure
Steve> out how to search the list archives at
Steve> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/automake.]
I don't know that either. However there is another archive which is
easily searchable:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/
Steve> Now, on the face of it, an obvious remedy seems to be that all
Steve> the "make clean" family (clean,distclean,maintainer-clean) of
Steve> rules should descend into all possible subdirs, as does the
Steve> "distdir" rule.
Steve> Would that be correct? Are there drawbacks?
There might be drawbacks, but they are hard to predict. I think using
DIST_SUBDIRS instead of SUBDIRS for `distclean' (and
`maintainer-clean') is the right thing to do.
Tom
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