Re: clean and cleandir question

[Noel Yap]

IIRC, some of the more common targets are described in one of the make.info files.  
"cleandir" might mean the same as "clobber".

Noel

Paul D. Smith wrote:

> %% Ipplepen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   i> Can anyone tell me what the difference is between what seem to be
>   i> standard makefile targets "clean" and "cleandir" please ?
>
> Not sure what you mean by "standard"; there are no predefined targets
> that come with GNU make.
>
> There are some conventions, and a very common one is that "clean" will
> clean up any derived objects created by an invocation of "make".
>
> There's no common target "cleandir" that I'm aware of, so we can't
> suggest exactly what it might mean.
>
>
> Why don't you just look at the makefile and see?