Re: Platform-specific "clean" targets?

[Jay Levitt]

On 11/17/2007 2:12 PM, Noah Misch wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, that makes sense.  I thought I'd seen other cases where make clean 
did an "rm core", but I've mostly been building "metaprojects" like 
gnulib and autoconf, where a core might be expected during failed tests. 
  The usual "rm conftest*" in configure should catch any conftest keep 
files too.

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

OK, didn't think so - just wanted to check.  Thanks.

Jay