On Mon, November 21, 2011 11:27 am, Derek Atkins wrote:
> John Ralls <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Several subdirectories have a subdirectory "gnucash", which clean
>> tried to remove by including in the CLEANFILES variable in
>> Makefile.am. This doesn't work, because directories can't be removed
>> with rm, they require rm -r. Add a clean-local: target which calls rm
>> -r on the gnucash subdirectory.
>
> BE VERY CAREFUL with this. On SOME platforms (ie linux) the gnucash
> "subdirectory" is just a symlink to '.' -- so run -r will potentially
> recursively remove the current directory!
Nevermind. It *USED* to be this way, but I just looked at the Makefile in
question and saw that it does indeed use mkdir always. Sorry for the
false alarm.
-derek
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