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Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean
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Russ Allbery |
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Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean |
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Tue, 02 Apr 2002 20:14:11 -0800 |
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Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
> It imposes quite some complications to maintain this possibility, and
> I'm not sure it's good. In addition, the semantics of distclean in a
> subdirectory being so fuzzy (to my eyes), that making it valid only in
> a top level directory seems reasonable to me. The problem being the
> last two words, of course :)
maintclean in a subdirectory is useful and fairly well-defined, however.
Think of removing bison-generated parsers. And usually maintclean depends
on distclean, the way most makefiles that I've seen are written.
> 2. Because `distclean' doesn't make a lot of sense to me in subdir, as
> an additional question, do we still want to enable distclean from a
> subdir, and if so, would it be grave that this subdir distclean triggers
> the top level's distclean.
Running distclean in a subdirectory triggering the parent's distclean
target would indeed be a very grave bug.
--
Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
- Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean, (continued)
- Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean, Akim Demaille, 2002/04/03
- Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean, Peter Eisentraut, 2002/04/03
- Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean, Akim Demaille, 2002/04/03
- Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean, Roger Leigh, 2002/04/03
- Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean, Akim Demaille, 2002/04/04
- Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean, Peter Eisentraut, 2002/04/04
- Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean, Akim Demaille, 2002/04/04
- Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean, Ralf Corsepius, 2002/04/04
- Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean, Akim Demaille, 2002/04/05
- Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean, Guido Draheim, 2002/04/04
Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean,
Russ Allbery <=
Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean, Akim Demaille, 2002/04/02
Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean, Akim Demaille, 2002/04/03
Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean, Russ Allbery, 2002/04/02