Le 04/01/2017 à 19:20, Patrick Schleizer a écrit : > Hi, > > as upstream, does it make sense to run 'make clean' when running 'make all'? > > Would that be considered good or bad? Any convention on that? > > Best regards, > Patrick >
Dear Patrick, This is not `good'. It makes some sort of sense if the dependency tracking is so broken that you need to run `make clean' anyway whenever you touch a source file, but even in that case, as upstream, I would not do it. What comes closest to a specification is: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Standard-Targets.html#Standard-Targets which does not even answer your question. In any case, upstream has the last say and can do as they see fit. As a Debian maintainer, one can use a build stamp in her debian/rules file if that helps for her workflow, to keep track of whether the code has been built already, something like: build: build-stamp build-stamp: $(MAKE) touch build-stamp clean: rm -f build-stamp $(MAKE) clean Doing this in a dh-friendly manner is left as an exercise to the reader. Regards, Thibaut.
