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

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 2:12 PM


> Let me get this straight: are you advocating that automake 
> deliberately 
> break 'make clean' for libtoolized packages on all platforms, when it 
> was previously working on most platforms -- just to force 
> libtool to fix 
> a feature that has been under-used/non-used in the past?

For HEAD, not for 1.6.1. That's what HEAD is for, to make changes to.
libtool recently broke HEAD when it merged the mlb branch in. They did a
release immediately before that to give users the latest code.
 
> > 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 ...'.
> 
> I'm talking here specifically about removing programs -- not all 
> libtoolobjects nor object files, nor libtoollibs nor staticlibs nor 
> sharedlibs.  (automade makefiles already do a decent -- and 
> fast -- job 
> of rm'ing .o's, .lo's, .libs/ and _libs/).  Just programs.  
> That's what 
> is currently busted -- and only on cygwin.

so libtool '--mode-clean foo' should assume that foo is a program. Ok.
 
Rob