Re: Automake 1.10 fails to cleanup .libs directory for a program in a subdirectory

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Karsten, Guillermo,

* Karsten Hopp wrote on Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:43:58PM CEST:
> The problem described in 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2007-06/msg00000.html still 
> exists in automake -1.10.
> http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/audit-1.5.6.tar.gz is the package 
> where one .libs subdir doesn't get removed with 'make distclean'
> As there haven't been any answers to that mail, I'm not sure if this is a 
> user error or a bug in automake.

Apologies for not answering earlier.  It's an Automake bug.  For now
it's easiest to work around it with adding something like
  # Work around an Automake bug:
  clean-local:
        rm -rf bar/.libs bar/_libs

in Makefile.am.  Automake should be fixed though.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf