Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It imposes quite some complications to maintain this possibility, and > I'm not sure it's good. In addition, the semantics of distclean in a > subdirectory being so fuzzy (to my eyes), that making it valid only in > a top level directory seems reasonable to me. The problem being the > last two words, of course :)
maintclean in a subdirectory is useful and fairly well-defined, however. Think of removing bison-generated parsers. And usually maintclean depends on distclean, the way most makefiles that I've seen are written. > 2. Because `distclean' doesn't make a lot of sense to me in subdir, as > an additional question, do we still want to enable distclean from a > subdir, and if so, would it be grave that this subdir distclean triggers > the top level's distclean. Running distclean in a subdirectory triggering the parent's distclean target would indeed be a very grave bug. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
