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question about `make clean'
- To: Automake List <automake at gnu dot org>
- Subject: question about `make clean'
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 26 Aug 2000 14:41:32 -0600
- Reply-To: tromey at cygnus dot com
Right now `make clean' cleans directories in the reverse of the order
it builds them. This is mostly correct. However, there are a couple
of automake PRs that point out that for subdir cleans it would be
better to clean depth first. Right now we clean `.' before the
subdirs by default.
I'm inclined to make `.' a special case and always clean it after
cleaning all the subdirs. In fact, I'm going to make this change.
I can't think of a time when this would be wrong. Anybody?
Tom