Re: distclean rule (more?) broken

[Gary V . Vaughan]

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On 27 May 2004, at 01:46, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> On Wed, 26 May 2004, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>
> > In CVS Libtool, a
> >
> > $ ./configure
> > $ make distclean
> >
> > fails because the tests/*/ dirs are not configured.  This makes
> > dist-cleaning quite difficult in the case of build errors.
>
> This problem has been around for a *long* time.  It can be quite a 
> problem if you want to cleanly re-use the directory for another 
> architecture.

The whole test suite needs to be rewritten in autotest, and all the 
*demo directories
created dynamically at test time by the individual tests.  This would 
make `make check'
quite a lot slower, but bootstrapping would be about 10 times quicker, 
and a whole bunch
of other corner cases like the one you mention would go away.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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