Re: [PATCH] make clean/distclean not quite clean in libnetutil

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 03:30:43PM +0100, Michael McTernan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've found a really minor wrinkle in building where
> libnetutil/makefile.dep isn't removed by clean.  Subsequent builds
> may then use the wrong dependency info and fail after
> reconfiguration since this file doesn't get refreshed.  In my case
> I'm cross building for different targets, so changing the include
> paths keeps falling over this.
>
> This is with the 6.00 release, but it looks like the problem is
> still in https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/libnetutil/Makefile.in and 
> https://svn.nmap.org/nmap-releases/nmap-6.01.DARPA1/libnetutil/Makefile.in.
>
> There follows a tiny patch based on my local SVN copy (i.e.
> different revision number) which adds makefile.dep to the clean
> target; this is the same way as nsock cleans up this file.

Thanks for this suggestion. "distclean" already deletes makefile.dep.
Is deleting dependencies on "clean" really expected behavior? I tried
the GNU Hello demo package. It creates src/.deps/hello/hello.Po after
"./configure"; the deps file isn't deleted by "clean" but is by
"distclean".

Doing cross builds and configuring with different include paths probably
warrants a distclean in between anyway.

David Fifield
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