Re: Clean folders

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Leonardo Boiko wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 04:21:10PM CET:
> >clean-local:
> >     rm -rf .build
> 
> I'm having a similar problem.  I want to create a convenience .am file
> with rules that many of our packages will use, to be included by
> Makefile.am's.  I'm already using neat tricks people talked about on
> earlier discussions, like AC_DEFINING variables to empty so that you can
> += them without problems.
> 
> But the included file create a directory in $builddir, and I'd like it
> to be entirely removed in ``make clean''.  I can't use CLEANFILES
> because it's a directory, and I can't use ``clean-local'' because it
> could conflict with a possible ``clean-local'' in the Makefile.am.

clean-local-myconv:
        -rm -rf whatever

and in the Makefile.am's where you'd like to use it, you put:

clean-local: clean-local-myconv

If you really want to use it everywhere, just put the second line in
your convenience Makefile.am.extra as well.

Regards,
Ralf