Re: Automatically remove .libs directory

[Peter Eisentraut]

Robert Boehne writes:

> I don't think that removing files during "make clean" is part of
> libtool's job, that is what Makefiles are for.

If it's libtool's job to create them, and libtool wants to be a
transparent solution, then it is also libtools job to remove them.  Surely
you can do it in the makefile, but in reality you can do everything that
libtool does in a makefile, but it's nice that libtool encapsulates the
details so I don't have to worry about them.

> I realize you wouldn't necessarily have the name of this directory
> as libtool might generate different names on different platforms,
> but perhaps libtool could be patched to return this info instead?

This would only put additional burden on the maintainer.  If he wants
burden then he doesn't need to use libtool.

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