Re: Platform-specific "clean" targets?

[Noah Misch]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 01:51:43PM -0500, Jay Levitt wrote:
> On Stratus VOS, core files are not called "core"; they are called 
> "[executable_name].kp". 
> 
> Is there something I can do in config.site (or somewhere else) that 
> will propagate through autoconf to add this to the average 
> autoconf/automake project's "clean" target - ideally at "configure" 
> time, not autoconf or automake time?  The clean-local target seems to 
> be for project-specific targets, not platform-specific targets, and 
> I'm not sure how to affect it from config.site anyway.

`make clean' should not delete such core files, since `make' does not create
them.  It is appropriate for `configure' to delete `conftest.kp' that may remain
after a failed test, and it can do this unconditionally.

There is no general facility designed to augment the clean rule on a platform-
or site-specific basis.