Re: Dependencies for clean rule

[Kaz Kylheku (gmake)]

On 2019-07-15 12:55, Erik Rull wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have several targets that depend on each other.
> For cleaning them up, I have to take care that the clean dependencies 
> are just
> the other way round.

No, you don't have to, actually.

There is no concept of dependencies in cleaning. Cleaning means taking a 
list of
objects that were produced by a build and deleting them. This can be 
done in any
order. If foo.o has gone into libbar.a, which went into prog, we can 
delete
these in any order. Or just delete some of them but not others.

(If the dependencies in the build system are correct, it can recover 
from the
partial deletion of any arbitrary subset of the intermediate objects.)