Re: slow "make clean"

[Ralf Hemmecke]

> You mean, as a workaround until Automake is improved?  You could
> overwrite the rule in your Makefile.am:
>
> mostlyclean-compile:
>         -find . -name \*.lo -o -name \*.$(OBJEXT) -print | xargs rm -f
>
> But note that automake may generate other files that would need to be
> mostlyclean'ed too, so the above could be insufficient for your project.

Thanks, that seems to work as a workaround. But, of course, it would be 
good, if I knew what will be generated, so that I can clean everything 
even when Makefile.am changes slightly. Is there a variable that already 
contains every name of MAKE-generated files?

> Thanks for the report,

No problem. But I was a bit surprised that I haven't found any proper 
bugtracker. Now, I have to subscribe to automake-patches and try to 
figure out when automake will have improvements that fix the slow "make 
clean" problem instead of just subscribing to the specific bug report.

Ralf