Re: CLEANFILES

[Russell Shaw]

Cédric Lucantis wrote:
> Le samedi 04 août 2007, Russell Shaw a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > I'm using automake 1.9.6.
> >
> > In automake.am, i have: CLEANFILES: *.tab.c *.tab.h *.tab.callback
> >
> > However, in the generated makefile, CLEANFILES appears, but is not
> > referenced anywhere. Therefore, "make clean" doesn't work as it
> > should.
>
> Hi,
>
> CLEANFILES is not a target but a user variable, so should have something 
> like this instead :
>
> CLEANFILES = $(wildcard *.tab) $(wildcard *.tab.h) ...

It makes no difference because the whole point of a user variable is
that CLEANFILES should be used by the makefile, but for some reason
it isn't.

> (I think the wildcard command is better than a shell expansion, but I'm 
> not sure it makes a difference in that case. See info make for more 
> about that)

I've read that. I used CLEANFILES many months ago and it worked ok.
Now it doesn't.