Re: Cleaning up make clean's behavior

[Gábor Boskovits]

2018-06-02 18:46 GMT+02:00 Nils Gillmann <address@hidden>:

Hi Jeremiah,

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> As running make clean breaks the bootstrap script.
> I propose we leverage git's shallow clones (git clone --depth 1 $URL)
> and include the .git directory with the repo such that we could simply
> have make clean check for git and if it exists run git clean -xdf and
> then only if git fails to exist, fallback to the existing broken form;
> which needs to be corrected.
>
> per discussion with g_bor[m] about the default automake clean rules
> being used currently; and per their suggestion bringing this question to
> this distribution list for further discussion.

Where did this discussion take place? Would be good to read some
details if possible.

ng0

> Additional wouldn't one want to pack the .git in the tarball to enable a
> simplified update method.
>
> jlicht pointed out that this would not be a problem yet for guix, but it
>  does seem unconventional. It would not make sense for some bigger-repo projects (e.g. emacs) for sure though
>
> Given that discussion background does anyone have any problems, concerns
> or issues with the change proposed?
>

It was on #guix. Currently I have found what causes the problem with make clean. I'm working on an alternative fix, but the idea outlined here seems to worth discussing.