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Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean |
Date: |
04 Apr 2002 18:44:50 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Eisentraut <address@hidden> writes:
Peter> Akim Demaille writes:
>> Because I fail to see the advantage for Automake to have to clean
>> itself, rather than asking the cleaning.
Peter> Automake already does all the other cleaning, so you could say
Peter> it's quite good at it. Autoconf hasn't done any cleaning so
Peter> far.
>> That's better to my eyes, also because a list of files might not
>> always be the right thing to do.
Peter> Why not?
I don't know. Maybe someday some test will be need before cleaning.
Maybe something in config.site will change something between two runs.
I just have no idea. It's just the principle.
Let me wrap the question in the other direction: what is better with
providing a list of files to remove? How does your solution work when
there is no longer the top Makefile, for whatever reason, but there
remains other files?
Using ./configure --clean, you never face this problem.
- Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean, (continued)
- Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean, Eric Siegerman, 2002/04/02
- Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean, Peter Eisentraut, 2002/04/02
- 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 <=
- 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, 2002/04/02
Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean, Akim Demaille, 2002/04/02
Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean, Akim Demaille, 2002/04/03