Hi Hiro et al, On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:29:48 -0500 (CDT) Hironori Ito <hito@students.phsx.ukans.edu> wrote concerning ": clean or something else????????????": > Hello. I have a very easy question. Which "clean" am I supposed > to use in the Makefile? Is it "clean", "mostlyclean", "distclean", > etc......??? Please do not tell me that it depends on what I do. I just > want to use one that works all the time. I do not want to compile with > one, and it does not work so that I use the different one which may or may > not work. I am sure for some people that it is very good to have more > options, but I am not one of them. I am not interested in waiting a > long time for brat/brop to compile and finding that it does not work the > way it should. So, tell me which "clean" really works all the time > (not most of the time or some time)!!! Use clean target to remove all generated files, i.e., go back to no object files, no llibraries, no dictionaries, no programs, i.e., if you want to compile from scratch. On the other targets: * mostly-clean is more or less the same as clean * maintainer-clean is very aggresive and removes almost everything to some thing like the CVS checkout state. That is, it even removes the Makefiles and various other configuration files. * distclean Removes all the Makefiles, and so on, so that the source tree is left in a state that resembles that which go into the tar-ball disttributiuon I'm considering introducting a target dict-clean, that will remove all the dictionary files. If and whan I introduce that target, it'll be the target to use each time someone adds a class, modifies a class, removes a class, and so on. For more on all this, please refer to the Autotool references in the README file. Yours, Christian ----------------------------------------------------------- Holm Christensen Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Office: (+45) 353 25 305 DK-2200 Copenhagen N Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm Denmark Email: cholm@nbi.dk
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