Re: Wishlist: Clean target for generated C files?

[Perrog]

Hi!

2007/2/28, Bob Proulx <address@hidden>:
> I would really like a clean target that would remove generated source
> files such as generated .c and .h files.  In the case of yacc and lex
> I would like to distribute the generated files so as not to require
> the use of yacc and lex to compile the distribution.  This rules out
> DISTCLEANFILES or that would work.  But they are not true source and
> so at times it is useful to delete them and rebuild them.  Such as
> when asking the question, which version of flex works and which fails?

Do you mean having a template file with extra rules feeded to automake
command, containing a target like CLEANDERIVED concatenated to every
Makefile.am file. Or do you mean adding a new primitive
_DERIVEDSOURCES to auto-makefiles with a list of intermediare/derived
files? Or both?

Regards,
Roger