Re: Automatically remove .libs directory

[Peter Eisentraut]

Gary V. Vaughan writes:

> I must admit I can't quite engineer a test to see what your patch achieves,

The patch achieves that the .libs subdirectory that libtool creates in
each build directroy for its private files is deleted after 'clean' (if
it's empty), because otherwise it will stay there forever.  You might have
trouble seeing this because Automake automatically generates commands to
remove .libs, but I don't use Automake, and Libtool should be able to do
this transparently.

> however I am worried about the `continue 2' in your patch, so I have
> reworked it to uniquify the list of objdirs as it is built.

The Autoconf manual claims that 'break 2' is portable.  But your solution
looks nice.

> The test suite still passes with my version, so let me know if it solves
> your problem and I'll commit it,

Works here.  Thanks.

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