Excellent scholarship, Giuseppe. A much needed quality in the world of software.
> On Feb 24, 2017, at 3:21 PM, Giuseppe D'Angelo <giuseppe.dang...@kdab.com> > wrote: > > Il 24/02/2017 23:41, Patrick Stinson ha scritto: >> Right, I thought that this would take care of this as well, but it turns out >> that it doesn’t restrict examples. Or, at least it doesn’t restrict examples >> for cleaning. > > Smells like a philosophical issue / arbitrary decision. > > -nomake examples excludes the examples from the Makefile's default > target, but not from the "all" target, and not from the "clean" target. > In other words a target for them is still created and usable in the > Makefile. In this sense, I guess "clean" is interpreted to clean the > products of the "all" target, not of the default one. > > For comparison, GNU says that "clean" should: > >> Delete all files that are normally created by running make. [1] > >> Delete all files in the current directory that are normally created by >> building the program. Also delete files in other directories if they are >> created by this makefile. [2] > > I interpret this as *not* what we're currently doing, but as I said, > it's an arbitrary decision. > > ANYHOW: we're also in 2017, so if you really want a very fast clean, > clone from git and run a git clean -dffx or similar. > >> [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Goals.html >> [2] >> https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Standard-Targets.html#Standard-Targets > > Hope this helps, > -- > Giuseppe D'Angelo | giuseppe.dang...@kdab.com | Senior Software Engineer > KDAB (UK) Ltd., a KDAB Group company | Tel: UK +44-1625-809908 > KDAB - Qt, C++ and OpenGL Experts > _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
