I find that make clean fails for me in texinfo's gnulib, because my gnulib/lib/sys/ directory is not empty, just because it contains a CVS dir:
$ make clean ... make[1]: Entering directory `/u/karl/gnu/src/texinfo/gnulib/lib' test -z "" || rm -f test -z "libgnu.a" || rm -f libgnu.a test -z "" || rm -f rm -f *.o test -z "core *.stackdump alloca.h alloca.h-t getopt.h getopt.h-t stdint.h stdint.h-t stdlib.h stdlib.h-t string.h string.h-t sys/stat.h sys/stat.h-t sys/time.h sys/time.h-t unistd.h unistd.h-t wchar.h wchar.h-t wctype.h wctype.h-t" || rm -f core *.stackdump alloca.h alloca.h-t getopt.h getopt.h-t stdint.h stdint.h-t stdlib.h stdlib.h-t string.h string.h-t sys/stat.h sys/stat.h-t sys/time.h sys/time.h-t unistd.h unistd.h-t wchar.h wchar.h-t wctype.h wctype.h-t rmdir sys rmdir: sys: Directory not empty make[1]: *** [mostlyclean-local] Error 1 $ ls gnulib/lib/sys CVS/ I think this is coming from this line in gnulib-tool (1444 or so): echo " echo \"rmdir \$\$dir\"; rmdir \$\$dir; \\" Can we switch to something like echo " echo \"rmdir \$\$dir\"; (rmdir \$\$dir || exit 0); \\" ? That leaves the diagnostic but lets things continue. It seems pretty harmless to me if the rmdir fails. Thanks, Karl
