Re: too-aggressive clean rule

[John Darrington]

It's a builtin variable, just like CC.  According to the make manual:

RM
    Command to remove a file; default `rm -f'. 


Perhaps you have an environment variable of that name set ?

J'




On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 09:38:31AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
     
     > I always understood that $(RM) should be prefered.  It expands to "rm -f"
     > on POSIX systems an "DEL /Y" on windoze.
     
     What makes it expand that way?  Here on my GNU/Linux box, with
     Automake 1.10 and GNU Make 3.81, it expands to the null string.
     I do not see a definition for it in Makefile.in.
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     Ben Pfaff 
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