Re: 24-clean-do-clean.patch

[Akim Demaille <akim at epita dot fr>]

Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> writes:

> Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > >>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> writes:
> > 
> > Akim> 	* automake.in (do_one_clean_target): Don't hard code knowledge
> > Akim> 	about libtool, and maintainer-clean.
> > Akim> 	* clean.am, libtool.am: Handle these.
> > 
> > The libtool part of this patch is fine.
> > 
> > The other part I don't know.  I'd like to eventually fix the FIXME
> > comment by having maintainer-clean look like:
> > 
> >     maintainer-clean:
> > 	@echo ...
> > 	$(MAKE) whatever
> > 
> > The echoes are a lame (imho) requirement on RMS's part.  For one thing
> > we're left with the question of whether we should repeat them in every
> > subdir.
> > 
> > Anyway I think this patch makes it harder to fix this problem.
> 
> Agreed, and indeed I moved this because it was making my life much
> harder.  I had to first distribute, factor etc. so that I finally
> could reach patch 25 (or 26 I don't recall: the monster).
> 
> But the monster makes it possible to move the echo to maintainer-clean
> extremely easily.  Well, I think :)

I can't proceed without a full approval of this patch, it is required
for the next ones.