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bug#6736: Windows: make maintainer-clean does not restore fully clean bz
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#6736: Windows: make maintainer-clean does not restore fully clean bzr tree |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:02:10 +0300 |
> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:16:00 +0800
> Cc: 6736@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Christoph <cschol2112@googlemail.com> writes:
>
> > The bin/ directory still contained the following files: cmdproxy.exe
> > The site-lisp/ directory contained: subdirs.el
> >
> > `make realclean' deletes ../bin eventually. Shouldn't
> > maintainer-clean' do the same if it claims to restore the fresh tree
> > checkout?
>
> I'm not sure.
>
> Anything in ../bin is put there by "make install". I'm pretty sure make
> maintainer-clean doesn't uninstall installed executables on other platforms
> either, but then those platforms will also have installed copies of
> other things that maintainer-clean does delete. Also if cmdproxy.exe is
> the only file left in ../bin, then that seems more like a buggy
> oversight than deliberately leaving the installed files alone.
I agree with Jason, FWIW.