Re: [O] Possible issue with the Makefile

[Suvayu Ali]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:17:28PM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Suvayu Ali writes:
> > In my local.mk I had `ORG_ADD_CONTRIB = org-e-*' before, but after the
> > switch I removed it (as you had pointed it out in another thread :)).
> > Despite that, all the org-e-* files under org-mode/lisp were not removed
> > after I did `make cleanall'.
> 
> You would have needed to do the "make clean" before the update that
> renamed respectively moved those files if you use globbing patterns.
> 
> > Don't you think this should be handled by the Makefile, or is this
> > non-trivial to deal with?
> 
> See above.  There is no way of knowing what the globbing pattern
> expanded to after the files are no longer present in contrib/ and you
> can't just go around in lisp/ and try the globbing there, at least not
> if you don't want files to vanish at random.
 
Thanks, I understand now :).  I'll put this in the FAQ.

Cheers,

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Suvayu

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