Re: Cleaning up make clean's behavior

["Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>]

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2018-06-02 18:46 GMT+02:00 Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is>:

> Hi Jeremiah,
>
> Jeremiah@pdp10.guru transcribed 946 bytes:
> > As running make clean breaks the bootstrap script.
> > I propose we leverage git's shallow clones (git clone --depth 1 $URL)
> > and include the .git directory with the repo such that we could simply
> > have make clean check for git and if it exists run git clean -xdf and
> > then only if git fails to exist, fallback to the existing broken form;
> > which needs to be corrected.
> >
> > per discussion with g_bor[m] about the default automake clean rules
> > being used currently; and per their suggestion bringing this question to
> > this distribution list for further discussion.
>
> Where did this discussion take place? Would be good to read some
> details if possible.
>
> ng0
>
> > Additional wouldn't one want to pack the .git in the tarball to enable a
> > simplified update method.
> >
> > jlicht pointed out that this would not be a problem yet for guix, but it
> >  does seem unconventional. It would not make sense for some bigger-repo
> projects (e.g. emacs) for sure though
> >
> > Given that discussion background does anyone have any problems, concerns
> > or issues with the change proposed?
> >
>
> It was on #guix. Currently I have found what causes the problem with make
clean. I'm working on an alternative fix, but the idea outlined here seems
to worth discussing.

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