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

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 7:29 AM

> 2) The presence of 'foo' in *_PROGRAMS could lead to six 
> different files 
> being deleted.  That's counter-intuitive.  Are you sure that all of 
> those six files are REALLY generated by libtool?  What if 
> they are NOT 
> libtool-generated?
> 
> A) Sure, that's a possibility.  But not very likely.  Unix 
> platforms are 
> not going to use ".exe" on anything.  

Unless the users are building for WINE.

> 3) It's ugly. 'libtool --mode=clean' is much better.
> 
> A) Sure, but this works *now*.  We can change to 'libtool 
> --mode=clean' 
> once libtool is fixed.

What about this: change to libtool --mode=clean, and open a bug in
libtool "clean does not clean properly".

> 4) It's slow. 'rm -f $(LIST OF FILES)' is much faster.
> 
> A) Yes, but you only incur this penalty for libtoolized 
> packages.  And 
> even if 'libtool --mode-clean' worked, THAT would have to 
> loop through 
> the names one at a time (inside the libtool script).  So the price of 
> correctness is a loss of speed, regardless.

Unless we use something like xargs - i.e. 'libtool --mode-clean $(LIST
OF OBJECTS) $(LIST OF LIBRARIES)'. Libtool can be smart enough to turn
that into 'rm -f $(list-of-.o's list-of-.lo's list-of-.la's ...'.
 
Rob