Re: Automake,cygwin: 'make clean' with libtool wrappers...

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Wilson <address@hidden> writes:

Robert> What you need to patch is libtool - see mode=clean.

Charles> Perhaps -- but that STILL would require automake to be
Charles> patched.

Yes.  If `libtool --mode=clean' is the best thing to do moving
forward, then let's change automake to use that.

Charles> However, I DID think about doing that ^^^.  Unfortunately,
Charles> libtool --mode=clean doesn't work with executables and
Charles> wrapper scripts and the .libs/ subdirectory; although it may
Charles> work okay when cleaning up libraries.

Robert, how hard is it to fix this in libtool?

Charles> Since automake hasn't made any previous gestures in the
Charles> direction of 'libtool --mode=clean', I figured why start
Charles> now...this patch to automake WORKS, allows users to do a
Charles> "make clean" (dist-clean, etc) and actually get a CLEAN
Charles> directory.

I'm not overly fond of that patch.

Tom