Carsten Hey wrote:
> what do you think about adding clobber to
>
> foreach my $target (qw{distclean realclean clean}) {
>
> in dh_auto_clean?
>
> The new line would be:
>
> foreach my $target (qw{distclean realclean clobber clean}) {
>
> Currently, our beloved command line calendar programm pal (and probably
> other software too) does not know distclean nor realclean but clobber.
> Martijn could you fix that for the next release?
>
> Quoting http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html:
>
> distclean
> realclean
> clobber
> Any of these targets might be defined to delete more files than `clean'
> does.
> For example, this would delete configuration files or links that you would
> normally create as preparation for compilation, even if the makefile itself
> cannot create these files.Pity it doesn't say what the difference is between a realclean and a clobber target. Based on the name, I think some clobber targets might delete things that cannot be gotten back at all, so it seems more risky to try to call it than it does to call realclean. -- see shy jo
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