Re: Deleting Makefile.in in maintainer-clean

2001-06-11 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
On Monday 11 June 2001 10:35 pm, Akim Demaille wrote: > > "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gary> I never did get the joke with `make mrproper' what is that all > Gary> about anyway?... > > A Procter and Gamble cleaning product. In France ``Monsieur Propre''. > > www.mo

Re: Deleting Makefile.in in maintainer-clean

2001-06-11 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> I never did get the joke with `make mrproper' what is that all Gary> about anyway?... A Procter and Gamble cleaning product. In France ``Monsieur Propre''. www.monsieurpropre.com

Re: Deleting Makefile.in in maintainer-clean

2001-05-24 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 7:57 pm, Eric Siegerman wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:49:46PM +0100, Gary V . Vaughan wrote: > > http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_43.html#SEC43 > > (Minor typo on that page, btw: in "CVS does not preserve > relatively timestamps", delete the "ly"

Re: Deleting Makefile.in in maintainer-clean

2001-05-23 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:49:46PM +0100, Gary V . Vaughan wrote: > On Tuesday 22 May 2001 6:43 pm, Eric Siegerman wrote: > > The bootstrap could be a simple shell script that makes no > > attempt to optimize out unnecessary actions -- after all, you > > would rarely be running it unless all the

Re: Deleting Makefile.in in maintainer-clean

2001-05-23 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 6:43 pm, Eric Siegerman wrote: > The bootstrap could be a simple shell script that makes no > attempt to optimize out unnecessary actions -- after all, you > would rarely be running it unless all the actions *were* > necessary. Like this? http://sources.redhat.com/autoboo

Re: Deleting Makefile.in in maintainer-clean

2001-05-22 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 06:46:03PM +0100, Gary V . Vaughan wrote: > On Saturday 19 May 2001 3:41 pm, Reinhard M?ller wrote: > > How about TOTALLYCLEAN or COMPLETELYCLEAN and defining it as removing > > everything that can be rebuilt somehow (e.g. with autoconf, automake, > > libtoolize, etc.) Ye

Re: Deleting Makefile.in in maintainer-clean

2001-05-19 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> Why not, many projects roll a `cvs-dist' and suchlike? It is Gary> certainly orthogonal... If you want to roll back to a clean cvs checkout, there is already a tool to do this. Prefacing it with `make' doesn't add anything, IMHO.

Re: Deleting Makefile.in in maintainer-clean

2001-05-19 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2001 3:41 pm, Reinhard M?ller wrote: > Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > > ... but I beleive that such target should not rely on CVS (since > > not everybody use CVS). I'd would prefer to have a > > MAINTAINERDISTCLEANFILES variable in Makefile.am, for > > consistency with other c

Re: Deleting Makefile.in in maintainer-clean

2001-05-19 Thread Reinhard Müller
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > ... but I beleive that such target should not rely on CVS (since > not everybody use CVS). I'd would prefer to have a > MAINTAINERDISTCLEANFILES variable in Makefile.am, for > consistency with other clean-targets. How about TOTALLYCLEAN or COMPLETELYCLEAN and defini

Re: Deleting Makefile.in in maintainer-clean

2001-05-19 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2001 1:29 pm, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >>> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gary> Anyway, I'm happy to check a copy of Pavel's cvsclean > [...] > Gary> If I convert it from perl to shell, would you be > Gary> interested in accepting as a new automa

Re: Deleting Makefile.in in maintainer-clean

2001-05-19 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Gary> If intallers have `make clean' and `make distclean', the Gary> maintainers corrollary is `make maintainer-clean' and Gary> `make cvs-clean' (maintainer-distclean?). I do this *all Gary> the time*! I too would like to have

Re: Deleting Makefile.in in maintainer-clean

2001-05-19 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
On Friday 18 May 2001 1:09 am, Tom Tromey wrote: > > "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gary> I have always tried to have maintainer-clean revert the source > Gary> tree to the state it was in when freshly checked out of CVS. > > This is easy enough to do; there is a too

Re: Deleting Makefile.in in maintainer-clean

2001-05-17 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> I have always tried to have maintainer-clean revert the source Gary> tree to the state it was in when freshly checked out of CVS. This is easy enough to do; there is a tool in the `cvsutils' (Pavel's, not Alexandre's) which will re

Re: Deleting Makefile.in in maintainer-clean

2001-05-17 Thread Reinhard Müller
"Gary V. Vaughan" wrote: > That's interesting. I have always tried to have maintainer-clean revert the > source tree to the state it was in when freshly checked out of CVS. Giving > this some thought, it seems to be something that can't easily be fully > automated by automake since people have v

Re: Deleting Makefile.in in maintainer-clean

2001-05-17 Thread Gary V . Vaughan
On Thursday 17 May 2001 4:19 am, Tom Tromey wrote: > > "Reinhard" == Reinhard Mller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Reinhard> I am just reading the GNU coding standards (chapter 7.2.5 - > Reinhard> Standard Make Targets) and I see that it's recommended that > Reinhard> maintainer-clean should

Re: Deleting Makefile.in in maintainer-clean

2001-05-16 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Reinhard" == Reinhard Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Reinhard> I am just reading the GNU coding standards (chapter 7.2.5 - Reinhard> Standard Make Targets) and I see that it's recommended that Reinhard> maintainer-clean should not delete files that are necessary Reinhard> to run config

Deleting Makefile.in in maintainer-clean

2001-05-16 Thread Reinhard Müller
I am just reading the GNU coding standards (chapter 7.2.5 - Standard Make Targets) and I see that it's recommended that maintainer-clean should not delete files that are necessary to run configure. Makefile.in's are necessary to successfully run configure, as well as most of the other files i men