[bug #42970] let clean and distclean descend into gnulib

[anonymous]

URL:
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                 Summary: let clean and distclean descend into gnulib
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tue 12 Aug 2014 05:42:51 PM UTC
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

GNULIBDIRS is not included in LIBDIRS for a reason: The gnulib build system
doesn't support the do= mechanism, so the $(TARGETS): rule cannot handle it. 
However, that doesn't mean there is nothing to do there.

Let's look at which TARGETS are relevant for gnulib:

all: not needed because that's already covered by the $(GNULIBDIRS): rule and
the targets depending on it.

distclean: distclean from the top level should descend here.  That's actually
important because right now, when you run "make distclean; ./configure; make
dist" on the top level then you get a broken tarball containing
src/libs/gnulib/Makefile even though the distclean step ought to have cleaned
that out.  Using that tarball will fail because gnulib/configure will not be
run on the target system.

clean: not quite as important as distclean, but still: clean should clean
gnulib, too.

mostlyclean TAGS: not important enough to warrant their own rule, i think.

install_bin install_data realclean extraclean distfiles depend uninstall_sub
fonts: not implemented in gnulib.




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Date: Tue 12 Aug 2014 05:42:51 PM UTC  Name: gnulib_clean.patch  Size: 804B  
By: None

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=31892>

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