lynx-dev Re: [dev16] patchlet for makefile.in

[Kim DeVaughn]

On Thu, Feb 11, 1999, Bela Lubkin (address@hidden) said:
|
| Kim DeVaughn wrote:
| >
| > when I make a patch.  Also, since FreeBSD (by default) prefixes
| > its core files with the prog name, let's nuke those as well.
|
| UnixWare names corefiles "core.%d" (where %d is the PID).  Other OSes
| have still other schemes.  I think we could get in trouble trying to
| encompass this.

How trouble?

Presumably if one says "make clean" or "make distclean", they know what
they're doing, and what they want.

I'd just suggest adding "core.*" and "*.core" to the rules, and be done
with it.  It's not like any such filenames should appear in the dist-
ribution.


BTW, does UnixWare allow one to alter the core-file naming convention?
FreeBSD 3.x does, via a sysctl(8) string value (though unfortunately,
2-2.x-whatever, such as we have here at Best, does not).

/kim