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Re: Why does 'make clean' not clean the etc/ directory?
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Glenn Morris |
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Re: Why does 'make clean' not clean the etc/ directory? |
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Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:39:42 -0400 |
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Sven Joachim wrote:
> The toplevel Makefile does not clean up the etc/ directory in the
> targets {mostly,,dist,maintainer-}clean, unlike the other directories.
It does. The top-level Makefile calls src/Makefile for the various
clean options, and these do delete the etc/DOC* files. I guess it's
because etc/DOC* is generated from src/, not from etc/.
> The result is that useless stale DOC-* files are left there, is this
> an oversight? I had expected them to disappear upon 'make clean' in
> the toplevel directory.
make clean only deletes DOC; you have to use distclean to get rid of
DOC-*. Admittedly, this does mean that src/Makefile is inconsistent
with etc/Makefile (which deletes DOC* for clean).
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