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Re: More make distclean

From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:46:54 -0700
Subject: Re: More make distclean
References: <20020610223948.GH7348@codesourcery.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0206110019480.18986-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk>

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 12:21:26AM +0100, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> > The last patch on this subject missed the testsuite.  I don't see why
> > some of these things survive past the "make check" in the first
> > place -- could some dejagnu experts please take a look?
> 
> Some files are deliberately kept behind from failing tests.

One would hope that all of these have names recognizably related to
the test, and not be, e.g. just "x" or "tmp.o"... yet that is what we
have in some cases.  (Admittedly few.)

> How accurately does make maintainer-clean do at returning the source tree
> to the state of a clean CVS checkout?

I haven't looked at that one at all.  On inspection, it definitely has
problems.

zw

References:
- More make distclean
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: More make distclean
  - From: Joseph S. Myers

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