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

Ivan Kalvachev ikalvachev at gmail.com
Tue Aug 1 23:19:39 CEST 2006


2006/8/2, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> So our behavior on make clean and make distclean is somewhat
> non-standard - *surprise* ...
>
> distclean is recursive while clean is not and distclean does not remove
> all generated files, config.h and config.mak get left behind.
>
> I think there was a reason for this behavior back in the day, but, for
> the life of me, I cannot remember it - if I ever knew.
>
> 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.

No objections.

Just test it more carefully.



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