Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Attila> I've found this in a makefile. What does it mean? Attila> clean: Attila> rm -rf -f *~ \#*\# ;
The first line (starting on the first column, with the colon) declares a target. So you can type 'make clean' at the command line, and the commands below get run. The commands, in turn, are indented (the line starts with a tab); in this case, running 'make clean' deletes generally Emacs backup files (files named foo~, bar~, #baz#, #quux#, and so forth). Don't know what the extra '-f' or the extra ';' are doing there, though. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
