In reply to myself:
> Is there a way of making the "rm -rf" more robust? Maybe with some sort
> of "while distdir exists, try removing" loop?
So far this works for me:
In automake-1.9/am/distdir.am:
--->8 patch snip 8<-
am__remove_distdir = \
{ test ! -d $(distdir) \
|| { f
Hi,
I'm have a strange problem with automake-1.9.5, where
"make dist" is dying at the very end on $(am__remove_distdir) because
the "rm -rf" fails.
{ test ! -d myproj || { find myproj -type d ! -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ';'
&&
rm -fr myproj; }; }
rm: cannot remove directory `myproj/te
Apologies on the delayed reply, but I felt like taking the bait..
I respectfully and fully disagree that running make in a subdirectory is
admission of anything other than a need to clean some a subset of a given
project in a convenient manner. The reason someone might want to do a make
clean
