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Re: Built-in target to delete all generated files
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Russ Allbery |
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Re: Built-in target to delete all generated files |
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Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:25:46 -0700 |
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Trevor Harmon <address@hidden> writes:
> On Apr 28, 2010, at 6:27 AM, Peter Johansson wrote:
>> Of note, GCS states that: "More generally, ‘make maintainer-clean’
>> should not delete anything that needs to exist in order to run
>> configure and then begin to build the program".
> Yes, but that rule of thumb is at odds with another rule of thumb:
> "Never commit generated files to a source code repository." And
> considering that "autoreconf -i" does a perfect job of regenerating all
> of the files I listed, I'm willing to break the GCS rule. Besides, I'm
> the only developer on this little project, so nobody will care but
> me. :)
Yeah, I've always ignored this part of the GCS for all of my projects. I
don't think it makes a lot of sense. If one doesn't want to remove the
generated files, that's what make distclean is for.
Although I must admit that now that I've switched to Git for everything,
I'm finding myself more and more just using git clean -x -f -d rather than
worrying about the maintainer-clean target.
--
Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
- Built-in target to delete all generated files, Trevor Harmon, 2010/04/28
- Re: Built-in target to delete all generated files, Peter Johansson, 2010/04/28
- Re: Built-in target to delete all generated files, Bob Friesenhahn, 2010/04/29
- Re: Built-in target to delete all generated files, Russ Allbery, 2010/04/29
- Re: Built-in target to delete all generated files, NightStrike, 2010/04/29
- Re: Built-in target to delete all generated files, Russ Allbery, 2010/04/29
- Re: Built-in target to delete all generated files, NightStrike, 2010/04/29
- Re: Built-in target to delete all generated files, Bob Friesenhahn, 2010/04/30
- Re: Built-in target to delete all generated files, Russ Allbery, 2010/04/30
- Re: Built-in target to delete all generated files, Trevor Harmon, 2010/04/29