At 08:58 AM 2/16/01 -0600, Sam TH wrote: >One question: what does make tidy do? I've never used it. Ah, the light dawns. Now I understand why people want autoconf -- they clean thoroughly when all they need is to tidy up a bit! :-) :-) This a lightweight variant of 'make clean' that just removes the objects associated with an arbitrary subtree: http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/99/May/0165.html For example, say you update an internal piecetable API and want to rebuild just that library: cd abi/src/text/fmt/ptbl make tidy make Or say you just want to refresh the entire UI: cd abi/src/wp make tidy make >Furthermore, there isn't a top-level make tidy available. Since the tidy target dives, you can invoke it anywhere at or below the following node of the tree: abi/src The reason there's not an explicit toplevel target (ie, in abi/Makefile) is because using tidy to clean the entire tree would be criminally stupid when 'make clean' does the whole job *so* much faster. And the *last* thing I want to do is encourage criminal stupidity. :-) Paul
