From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why does 'make clean' not clean the etc/ directory? Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:39:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <18095.36083.982065.264439@debian.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185946672 20866 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2007 05:37:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 05:37:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sven Joachim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 01 07:37:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IG6u2-0000xm-2y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:37:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IG6u1-0007Ky-MX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:37:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IG6ti-0007Ej-Ij for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:37:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IG6tg-0007E5-MH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:37:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IG6tg-0007E1-Hb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:37:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IG6tg-0001ys-AG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:37:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IG6vu-0005Um-6H; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:39:42 -0400 X-Spook: INS codes Skipjack 22nd SAS radar fraud Crowell beanpole X-Ran: qaT4~-eK{dw@5RExuCq)7,_YuE`v^Bj;v,6ZIJ>dB$owESVqM831Ye],T#*r5_59PED@1s X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <18095.36083.982065.264439@debian.local> (Sven Joachim's message of "Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:26:43 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75885 Archived-At: 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).