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

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Thu Aug 3 19:29:54 CEST 2006


On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:55:51AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> 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?

Excellent idea, implemented.

Diego



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