Re: RFC: ./configure or ./config.status --clean

[Russ Allbery <rra at stanford dot edu>]

Eric Siegerman <erics@telepres.com> writes:

> Another possibility is to do the cleaning in the Makefile as it's
> always been done, but have config.status provide the list of
> files.  Something like an "@configure_targets@" macro for
> config.status to replace -- the catch being that, unlike other
> macros, this one's value is customized per directory.  So every
> Makefile.in (Automake-generated or otherwise), can just say:

> 	distclean-whatever:
> 		....
> 		-rm -f @configure_targets@

> This accomplishes the goal of removing knowledge of Autoconf from
> inside Automake, while sidestepping all these other decisions :-)

I like this approach much better.  It also handles cases where, for some
strange reason, the user may want to take some action other than rm for
such files.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>