* Why does 'make clean' not clean the etc/ directory?
@ 2007-07-31 19:26 Sven Joachim
2007-08-01 5:39 ` Glenn Morris
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From: Sven Joachim @ 2007-07-31 19:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
The toplevel Makefile does not clean up the etc/ directory in the
targets {mostly,,dist,maintainer-}clean, unlike the other directories.
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.
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* Re: Why does 'make clean' not clean the etc/ directory?
2007-07-31 19:26 Why does 'make clean' not clean the etc/ directory? Sven Joachim
@ 2007-08-01 5:39 ` Glenn Morris
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From: Glenn Morris @ 2007-08-01 5:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sven Joachim; +Cc: emacs-devel
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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