Re: race condition gnulib-tool's mostlyclean-local rule

[Jim Meyering]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> IMVHO it's ugly (and resource-wasting) to have a $(MAKE) reinvocation
> to paper over limitations in the extensibility of Automake-generated
> Makefiles; the right fix would be to add dependency information
>   mostlyclean-local: mostlyclean-compile mostlyclean-generic
>
> in this case, except that the latter two targets are not published.
>
> I suggest that for most *-local targets it supports (i.e., where it
> makes sense), Automake add a set of hooks
>   *-local-before
>   *-local-after

Hi Ralf,

I prefer that approach, too.
Go for it! :)