Quoting Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > In the course of the preceding year or two, whenever I heard about > mainatiner-clean, it was misinterpreted this way. > (That's why I reacted so hysterically when I saw your hint on the > automake list.)
Same thing here. Actually I discovered last year, by reading the GNU Coding Standards that maintainer-clean wasn't what I thought it was. Many people still get it wrong where I work. > > I cannot agree that the need is "very particular". Virtually every > projects' CVS build instructions start with point 1. "get a clean > checkout". And if the build does not work, the user wants to get back > to that clean checkout. Yes, I've frequently seen this too. > > I was afraid that if we let the rumour spread, this will soon become > the de-facto standard for half of the projects, and the name > "maintainer-clean" will no longer have any meaning. I'm afraid that many people already use this target to un-bootstrap their project by extending MAINTERCLEANFILES. > > So I wanted to see how do the standard makers feel about it. > >> It would be good to have some improved functionality in this area. >> See also my posting asking for a clean target for generated source >> files. [All it needs is someone to actually do the work. :-)] >> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2007-03/msg00001.html > > OK, so if want to do something about this, I should first implement > --clean, and then start recommending it as the right tool for the > purpose. > I started to implement --clean yesterday (from CVS HEAD)... It's the very first time I dig into the code of the autotools but it does not seem to be very hard to implement. I don't know if I'll succeed but at least I can try ;) In a first time, I'm trying to implement --clean in autoreconf/aclocal/autoconf/autoheader/automake (maybe in autopoint too? I've discovered this tool yesterday when reading the code of autoreconf) Then I'm thinking of implementing a target such as "bootclean" that would do maintainer-clean + un-bootstrap. Any comments? Cheers, -- SIGOURE Benoit aka Tsuna _____ /EPITA\ Promo 2008, LRDE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Autogen-users mailing list Autogen-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/autogen-users
