Re: Automatically remove .libs directory

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Friday 09 March 2001  4:14 pm, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Gary V. Vaughan writes:
> > I must admit I can't quite engineer a test to see what your patch
> > achieves,
>
> The patch achieves that the .libs subdirectory that libtool creates in
> each build directroy for its private files is deleted after 'clean' (if
> it's empty), because otherwise it will stay there forever.  You might have
> trouble seeing this because Automake automatically generates commands to
> remove .libs,

Ah, that would be it =)O|

> but I don't use Automake, and Libtool should be able to do
> this transparently.

Agreed.

> > however I am worried about the `continue 2' in your patch, so I have
> > reworked it to uniquify the list of objdirs as it is built.
>
> The Autoconf manual claims that 'break 2' is portable.  But your solution
> looks nice.

It probably saves a little space, and maybe some time too depending on how
many repeats turn up in the variable...

> > The test suite still passes with my version, so let me know if it solves
> > your problem and I'll commit it,
>
> Works here.  Thanks.

Great.  I've commited to HEAD and MLB.

Cheers,
        Gary.

p.s. seems Robert was trying to these commits at the same time, and he 
managed MLB first, but I managed HEAD.  But you get the idea =)O|

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