[MPlayer-dev-eng] make clean and make distclean behavior

[The Wanderer]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:11:02PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
>> So is there any reason nowadays to keep things as they are?  I
>> think I want to have a bit more standard semantics with recursive
>> clean and a distclean that returns pristine sources.
> 
> Well, I don't disagree, but for development I find a version that
> only cleans the current directory quite useful. Having to do a full
> recompile just to test something in the main directory is a pain.
> Yes, I know there are other ways (and these days most if not
> everything is caught properly via dependencies), but make clean in
> its current form is still a fast and effective helper...

Add 'make dirclean' (or 'topdirclean' or the like), perhaps?

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