Re: make clean is slow

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Bob,

* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:03:41PM CEST:
> clean-codersLTLIBRARIES:
>         -test -z "$(coders_LTLIBRARIES)" || rm -f $(coders_LTLIBRARIES)
>         @list='$(coders_LTLIBRARIES)'; for p in $$list; do \
>           dir="`echo $$p | sed -e 's|/[^/]*$$||'`"; \
>           test "$$dir" != "$$p" || dir=.; \
>           echo "rm -f \"$${dir}/so_locations\""; \
>           rm -f "$${dir}/so_locations"; \
>         done
> 
> or
> 
> clean-binPROGRAMS:
>         @list='$(bin_PROGRAMS)'; test -n "$$list" || exit 0; \
>         echo " rm -f" $$list; \
>         rm -f $$list || exit $$?; \
>         test -n "$(EXEEXT)" || exit 0; \
>         list=`for p in $$list; do echo "$$p"; done | sed 's/$(EXEEXT)$$//'`; \
>         echo " rm -f" $$list; \
>         rm -f $$list
> 
> Is there a way to make this quite a lot faster?

The LTLIBRARIES bits: yes, noted.  The PROGRAMS bits should be
reasonably fast already, only forking a constant number of times.

Thanks,
Ralf