Re: How thorough must the clean target be?
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:28:06PM +0200, Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:44:53AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > However, the current debian-policy statement about clean is:
> >
> > This must undo any effects that the build and binary targets may have
> > had, except that it should leave alone any output files created in the
> > parent directory by a run of a binary target.
> >
> > Taken exactly literally, this says that packages that run Autoconf or
> > Automake at build time must be able to reverse all changes that those
> > tools make when the clean target is run. Similarly, packages that copy
> > new config.sub or config.guess files at build time must save the old
> > versions and restore them when the clean target is run.
>
> \usepackage[shameless]{plug}
> \begin{plug}
> I have proposed a (IMVHO) better solution to the
> config.sub/config.guess problem see
> <http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2006/03/msg00038.html>
> \end{plug}
Neat ! Please put that (well, rather the exec version) in the developer
reference !
Mike
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