RE: Automake,cygwin: 'make clean' with libtool wrappers...

[Robert Collins]

What you need to patch is libtool - see mode=clean.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 2:59 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: Robert Collins
> Subject: Automake,cygwin: 'make clean' with libtool wrappers...
> 
> 
> On cygwin, by the time you reach the 'clean-binPROGRAMS:' target, 
> bin_PROGRAMS has been transmogrified to have .exe endings.  But, when 
> building dynamically linked executables on cygwin, you end up with:
> 
> <workdir>/myprogram  << wrapper script <workdir>/.libs/myprogram.exe
> 
> In any case, it takes more than just 'rm -f ${bin_PROGRAMS)' to 
> completely clean up this mess.  So, the following patch to 
> lib/am/progs.am.
> 
> When ?LIBTOOL?, loop thru bin_PROGRAMS, and hunt for and 
> delete each of 
> the following:
> 
>    myprogram.exe   << static linked .exe's go here (cygwin, DOS?)
>    myprogram       << wrappers for dynamically linked .exe's (cygwin),
>                       and statically linked unix executables
>    .libs/myprogram.exe  << dynamically linked exe's (cygwin)
>    .libs/myprogram      << dynamically linked unix executables
>    _libs/myprogram.exe  << dynamically linked exe's (DOS?)
>    _libs/myprogram      << ??? didn't want to leave anything out...
> 
> That covers all the possible "droppings" that libtool could 
> create, on 
> windows-ish platforms, dos-ish platforms (_libs) and unixoid ones.
> 
> (This patch also helps fix massive testsuite failures in the libtool 
> package, when gets really confused by the random presence of 
> old wrapper 
> scripts -- when the current testbuild is static only ...)
> 
> --Chuck
> 
> 2002-05-03  Charles Wilson  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * lib/am/progs.am: make sure to clean up all the
>       libtool droppings when doing 'make clean'
> 
> 
> 
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