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Re: A target that's even more bootstrap?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: A target that's even more bootstrap? |
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Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:03:13 +0300 |
> From: address@hidden (Phillip Lord)
> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:53:02 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> mostlyclean
> clean
> distclean
> maintainer-clean
> extraclean
> bootstrap-clean
>
> The the irregular hyphenation is a bit odd.
clean, distclean, mostlyclean, and maintainer-clean are from the GNU
Coding Standards (GCS). Many projects have extraclean. So this is
tradition of sorts.
> But, in addition, I would guess that many of these levels
> (maintainer-clean, extraclean and bootstrap-clean) are really only
> there to save time; with parallel builds and faster machines I
> wonder how many of these are actually needed.
AFAIK, the issue at hand is not the speed, the issue is to know what
generated files get deleted. Some builds require a specific target
from this list to be run before the build. For example, if you weant
to reconfigure from scratch, you want distclean.
> If I understand it, distclean is most severe. So, why not ditch
> everything other than distclean and clean?
Because the GCS says otherwise?
- A target that's even more bootstrap?, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/06/18
- Re: A target that's even more bootstrap?, Andreas Schwab, 2019/06/18
- Re: A target that's even more bootstrap?, Phillip Lord, 2019/06/18
- Re: A target that's even more bootstrap?, Stefan Monnier, 2019/06/18
- Re: A target that's even more bootstrap?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: A target that's even more bootstrap?, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/06/19
- Re: A target that's even more bootstrap?, Andreas Schwab, 2019/06/19
- Re: A target that's even more bootstrap?, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/19
- Re: A target that's even more bootstrap?, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/06/19
Re: A target that's even more bootstrap?, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/18