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From: Christoph <cschol2112@googlemail.com>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: 6736@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6736: Windows: make maintainer-clean does not restore fully clean bzr tree
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:39:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C5621BA.6020601@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <876301cbfz.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net>

On 7/27/2010 7:16 AM, Jason Rumney wrote:

> Anything in ../bin is put there by "make install".

Actually, cmdproxy.exe is copied to bin by `make bootstrap', since 
(according to a comment in the makefile) it needs it during the 
bootstrap process.

> I'm pretty sure make
> maintainer-clean doesn't uninstall installed executables on other platforms
> either, but then those platforms will also have installed copies of
> other things that maintainer-clean does delete. Also if cmdproxy.exe is
> the only file left in ../bin, then that seems more like a buggy
> oversight than deliberately leaving the installed files alone.

OK. What about the site-lisp directory? Is it safe to delete it too or 
could the user have files in it that he does not want to loose?

Christoph





  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-02  1:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-27  2:28 bug#6736: Windows: make maintainer-clean does not restore fully clean bzr tree Christoph
2010-07-27 13:16 ` Jason Rumney
2010-07-27 17:02   ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-02  1:39   ` Christoph [this message]
2010-08-02  2:42     ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-02  3:58       ` Christoph
2010-08-02  4:10         ` Juanma Barranquero
2016-12-07  3:57           ` Glenn Morris
2016-12-07 16:02             ` Eli Zaretskii

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