From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1Qml7E-0003xk-18 for mharc-qemu-trivial@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 07:20:28 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33480) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qml79-0003mw-Qg for qemu-trivial@nongnu.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 07:20:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qml77-0003xL-Em for qemu-trivial@nongnu.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 07:20:23 -0400 Received: from mail-gw0-f45.google.com ([74.125.83.45]:61140) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qml76-0003wC-TQ; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 07:20:21 -0400 Received: by gwb19 with SMTP id 19so3143072gwb.4 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:20:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:newsgroups:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=qeN/IBmOxEvnIHDDo5O7Km1QbDrOGIZy+5kwqLYEzpM=; b=bbgNc5ZCI+i6vfkVeIHBKmuLfbbBQEBzipuSEdLU11q02J8q8Qcm1FxcverA9PeGGN qphlQh83cU8ftXu/IB0rSQsX6EtNMLwOBcTJdXLJu8hW0tdRM60lhe9HMDtZ4eZRuPWy nloaNqWYM3EEN+if0+biSD+PjAL5/DEsmjR+U= Received: by 10.90.72.8 with SMTP id u8mr982702aga.209.1311938418804; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:20:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yakj.usersys.redhat.com (93-34-199-31.ip51.fastwebnet.it [93.34.199.31]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q6sm1823633anp.35.2011.07.29.04.20.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <4E32976D.5090605@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:20:13 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110707 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.comp.emulators.qemu To: Michael Roth References: <1311652562-10794-1-git-send-email-cerbere@gmail.com> <1311652562-10794-2-git-send-email-cerbere@gmail.com> <4E3023BA.3030105@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4E3023BA.3030105@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 74.125.83.45 Cc: Alexandre Raymond , qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster , Qemu Developers Subject: Re: [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: distclean should clean all possible targets X-BeenThere: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:20:26 -0000 On 07/27/2011 04:42 PM, Michael Roth wrote: >> "Delete all files in the current directory (or created by this >> makefile) that are created by configuring or building the program. If >> you have unpacked the source and built the program without creating >> any other files, ‘make distclean’ should leave only the files that >> were in the distribution. However, there is no need to delete parent >> directories that were created with ‘mkdir -p’, since they could have >> existed anyway. " >> >> Now, if everyone agrees that "distclean" is fine as it is, I won't >> insist on anything. > > I'm with you in that distclean to me reads as "make clean for > re-distribution". i.e. a pristine source tree. It should be like that _as long as you rerun make distclean before every reconfiguration_. Paolo