On Thursday 09 August 2001 11:46 am, Akim Demaille wrote:
> >>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Ralf> Am 09 Aug 2001 11:40:06 +0200 schrieb Akim Demaille:
> >> >>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Ralf> Though I agree that it would be desirable to let autoconf do
> Ralf> this cleanup, I fail to see how autoconf could do this job.
>
> >> I thought several times about the fact that some clean up targets
> >> should not be handled by the Makefile itself, but by the tool which
> >> created them.
> >>
>
> But I agree distclean could happily use config.status this way!
Automake has been using libtool --mode=clean for some time, so it makes sense
to be consistent and allow each tool to provide a cleanup switch of sorts
wherever it makes sense...
Cheers,
Gary.
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