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Re: too-aggressive clean rule
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: too-aggressive clean rule |
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Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:38:31 -0700 |
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John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
> I always understood that $(RM) should be prefered. It expands to "rm -f"
> on POSIX systems an "DEL /Y" on windoze.
What makes it expand that way? Here on my GNU/Linux box, with
Automake 1.10 and GNU Make 3.81, it expands to the null string.
I do not see a definition for it in Makefile.in.
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Ben Pfaff
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