Re: best practice advice, use of a custom local-clean target

2008-08-18 Thread Noah Slater
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:56:15PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Because the functionality is notoriously difficult to implement nicely > in autotools itself, so that it works under all circumstances. Benoit > worked on it last year, we've never finished it. Sure, thanks for the info. > You sh

Re: best practice advice, use of a custom local-clean target

2008-08-18 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Noah, * Noah Slater wrote on Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:19:46PM CEST: > * Why do I need to create my own target to clean up the Makefile.in files and >other sundry left overs? Because the functionality is notoriously difficult to implement nicely in autotools itself, so that it works under a

best practice advice, use of a custom local-clean target

2008-08-18 Thread Noah Slater
Hello, I have two targets, local-clean and distsign, here: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/couchdb/trunk/Makefile.am I have a couple of questions: * Why do I need to create my own target to clean up the Makefile.in files and other sundry left overs? Should Automake not ideally c