[bug#72225] [PATCH] _AM_PROG_CC_C_O: clean up after .dSYM directories properly [PING]

[Eric Gallager]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 2:38 AM Eric Gallager <egall@gwmail.gwu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 10:16 AM Zack Weinberg <zack@owlfolio.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 21, 2024, at 5:20 AM, Eric Gallager via Patches for Automake 
> > wrote:
> > > On darwin, the compiler will generate .dSYM directories (for debug
> > > info) alongside executables when invoked, leading to messages like the
> > > following in configure output:
> > >
> > > checking whether /usr/local/bin/gcc understands -c and -o together...
> > > rm: conftest.dSYM: is a directory
> > > yes
> > >
> > > The attached patch ought to fix this by passing the -r flag to the rm
> > > invocation that's meant to clean up the conftests. One concern,
> > > though, is that in the same invocation, it also tries to remove
> > > anything called "core", so I worry what might happen with this change
> > > if "core" happens to be a directory... should I handle that
> > > separately?
> >
> > Tests generated by autoconf proper use this formula for cleaning up after
> > link tests:
> >
> > rm -f -r a.out a.exe b.out conftest.$ac_ext conftest.o conftest.obj 
> > conftest.dSYM
> >
> > I'd suggest that _AM_PROG_CC_C_O should be aligned with this - which means
> > *not* deleting anything named 'core'.  You may or may not have $ac_ext 
> > available;
>
> ac_ext is used just a few lines above in the call to AM_RUN_LOG on line 26.
>
> > even if you don't I'd suggest that you also make the 'conftest*' glob more
> > specific (without having looked at the rest of am-prog-cc-c-o.m4, something
> > like 'conftest.c conftest.o conftest.obj conftest.dSYM' is probably close).
> >
> > zw
>
> Attached is a new patch that removes 'core' from the list of files to
> be deleted, and adds some of your suggestions instead.

Hi, I'd just like to ping this patch from earlier:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2024-08/msg00003.html

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