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bug#7671: Presetting various *CLEANFILES variables
From: |
Behdad Esfahbod |
Subject: |
bug#7671: Presetting various *CLEANFILES variables |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Dec 2010 04:51:29 -0500 |
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Hi Stefano,
Thanks for the prompt reply.
On 12/18/10 05:02, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Note that the *CLEANFILES variables cannot be used to remove directories,
> so, for your approach to be really useful in all cases (i.e. also be able
> to git-ignore generated directories easily), a similar set of *CLEANDIRS
> variables would be needed.
Good point. I didn't think about that.
> And IMHO adding them would be a good idea regardless of your particular
> use case.
Agreed.
>> If instead automake was changed to always pre-initialize *CLEANFILES
>> variables, all snippets could just append to do variables and my git.mk
>> snippet would be more generic and much more simpler at the same time.
>> So I want to suggest that automake be changed to initialized *CLEANFILES
>> if the Makefile.am doesn't initialize them explicitly.
>>
> If the change you propose can be implemented without breaking backward
> compatibility (and I think it probably can), then I'm all in favor of it.
>
> I'd like to hear Ralf's opinion on this before taking any further
> action, though.
Indeed.
Cheers,
behdad
>> In another note, if that change is made and my git.mk simplified to not have
>> tool-specific logic in it, it would be a great addition to automake itself.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> behdad
>>
>
> Thanks,
> Stefano
>