[m-dev.] Clean targets and optimisation files

[Fergus Henderson]

On 17-Aug-1999, Warwick Harvey <wharvey at cs.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> A week or so ago Fergus wrote:
> > Is there a reason why `gradeclean' needs to be different from `clean'?
> 
> Not really.  About the only thing I can think of is that it'd be cleaner
> (sorry!) if `gradeclean' deleted libraries and executables, whereas you
> probably (?) don't want that for `clean'.

Emphasis on the "(?)" ;-)

> But I think I could live with
> using `clean' for `gradeclean' even if it didn't delete these files.
> 
> So I guess the proposal is:
> 
> foo.clean:
> 	-rm -rf $(foo.dirs)
> 	-rm -f $(foo.cs) foo_init.c
> 	-rm -f $(foo.ss) foo_init.s
> 	-rm -f $(foo.os) foo_init.o
> 	-rm -f $(foo.pic_os) foo_init.pic_o
> 	-rm -f $(foo.profs)
> 	-rm -f $(foo.nos)
> 	-rm -f $(foo.qls)
> 	-rm -f $(foo.errs)
> 	-rm -f $(foo.schemas)
> 
> (With corresponding additions to/deletions from the `realclean' target, and
> the removal of the `change_clean' target.)

That proposal sounds fine to me.

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