Hi Stefano, Thanks for the prompt reply.
On 12/18/10 05:02, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Note that the *CLEANFILES variables cannot be used to remove directories, > so, for your approach to be really useful in all cases (i.e. also be able > to git-ignore generated directories easily), a similar set of *CLEANDIRS > variables would be needed. Good point. I didn't think about that. > And IMHO adding them would be a good idea regardless of your particular > use case. Agreed. >> If instead automake was changed to always pre-initialize *CLEANFILES >> variables, all snippets could just append to do variables and my git.mk >> snippet would be more generic and much more simpler at the same time. >> So I want to suggest that automake be changed to initialized *CLEANFILES >> if the Makefile.am doesn't initialize them explicitly. >> > If the change you propose can be implemented without breaking backward > compatibility (and I think it probably can), then I'm all in favor of it. > > I'd like to hear Ralf's opinion on this before taking any further > action, though. Indeed. Cheers, behdad >> In another note, if that change is made and my git.mk simplified to not have >> tool-specific logic in it, it would be a great addition to automake itself. >> >> Cheers, >> behdad >> > > Thanks, > Stefano >
