Re: gnuwin32 make 3.81 does not clean in one go.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:36:45 +0530
> From: "Gurpreet Sachdeva" <address@hidden>
> 
> I am facing a strange problem in using a clean target.
> 
> The target is very simple -
> clean:
>         RD /S /Q $(DIR)
> 
> $DIR is the root directory with a big hierarchy of sub directories
> underneath. When I do a "make clean"
> * It throws the following error for a couple of directories.
> * Deletes all the files under these directories.
> * Deletes rest of the directories under $DIR.
> 
> C:\foo\foo1\foo2\foo3\foo4\foo5\foo6\foo7\foo8 - The process cannot access
> the file because it is being used by another process.
> C:\foo\foo1\foo2\foo3\foo4\foo5\foo6\foo7\foo8_1 - The process cannot access
> the file because it is being used by another process.
> 
> And when I do make clean again, it wipes off the remaining dirs.
> 
> Running this command RD /S /Q $(DIR) from command line works fine. I am not
> sure if someone has faced this issue and could direct me to the fix?

I cannot reproduce this, but my Make 3.81 binary was compiled from
sources by me, it isn't the binary downloaded from the MinGW site.

Are you perhaps using a non-standard shell?

Also, what version of Windows is that?

Did you pass any non-default command-line options to Make?  If so,
which ones?