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Re: *CLEANFILES dependency
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fr33domlover |
Subject: |
Re: *CLEANFILES dependency |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Aug 2014 20:06:15 +0300 |
On 2014-08-12
Nick Bowler <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Yes, but I think you have clean/distclean backwards. There are four
> clean targets:
>
> mostlyclean
> clean
> distclean
> maintainer-clean
>
> Each target in the list performs all the actions of the targets
> above it in addition to its own actions. So if you add something
> to DISTCLEANFILES, it will be removed by both distclean and
> maintainer-clean, but not removed by mostlyclean or clean.
> As you have observed, this does not appear to be explicitly
> documented in the manual.
>
> So typically, a generated file would be added to exactly one of the
> *CLEANFILES variables.
>
Thank you! :-)
-- fr33
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