Re: Automake,cygwin: 'make clean' with libtool wrappers...

[Charles Wilson]

Robert Collins wrote:

> What you need to patch is libtool - see mode=clean.


Perhaps -- but that STILL would require automake to be patched.  This is 
ALL that prog.am had for "clean":

clean-%DIR%PROGRAMS:
       -test -z "$(%DIR%_PROGRAMS)" || rm -f $(%DIR%_PROGRAMS)

That's it.  No special

?LIBTOOL? 
$(LIBTOOL) --mode=clean  $(%DIR%_PROGRAMS)

or anything.  Automake-generated Makefile.in's do not use --mode=clean 
at this time.

However, I DID think about doing that ^^^.  Unfortunately, libtool 
--mode=clean doesn't work with executables and wrapper scripts and the 
.libs/ subdirectory; although it may work okay when cleaning up 
libraries.  I think that --mode=clean is very underused and undertested. 
 AND the code is an impenatrable mass of &address@hidden@.

Since automake hasn't made any previous gestures in the direction of 
'libtool --mode=clean', I figured why start now...this patch to automake 
WORKS, allows users to do a "make clean" (dist-clean, etc) and actually 
get a CLEAN directory.

I'll mention on the libtool list that --mode=clean needs fixing, but 
until then using this block of code in progs.am until it can be replaced 
by the line above seems like a decent way to go, to me...

--Chuck