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Re: 24-clean-do-clean.patch
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Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: 24-clean-do-clean.patch |
Date: |
04 Feb 2001 20:28:17 +0100 |
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Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
> >>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Akim> * automake.in (do_one_clean_target): Don't hard code knowledge
> Akim> about libtool, and maintainer-clean.
> Akim> * clean.am, libtool.am: Handle these.
>
> The libtool part of this patch is fine.
>
> The other part I don't know. I'd like to eventually fix the FIXME
> comment by having maintainer-clean look like:
>
> maintainer-clean:
> @echo ...
> $(MAKE) whatever
>
> The echoes are a lame (imho) requirement on RMS's part. For one thing
> we're left with the question of whether we should repeat them in every
> subdir.
>
> Anyway I think this patch makes it harder to fix this problem.
Agreed, and indeed I moved this because it was making my life much
harder. I had to first distribute, factor etc. so that I finally
could reach patch 25 (or 26 I don't recall: the monster).
But the monster makes it possible to move the echo to maintainer-clean
extremely easily. Well, I think :)