On Samstag 26 September 2009, Chris McCormick wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 09:59:42AM +0200, Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 08:40:12AM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote: > > > Isn't that backwards? Makefiles typically remove object files, > > > binaries and libraries with the "clean" target, and remove everything > > > else (backup files, generated makefiles, etc) with "distclean". > > > > I don't know what makefiles do, but I've used "clean" and "zap" this way > > since I'm writing makefiles - which is quite some time. > > That is 100% fine, but I think that the point is that most other people are > used to 'clean' and 'distclean' doing what Per described and it could be > confusing for people if 'make clean' does what 'make distclean' is > generally supposed to do. So either we can teach everyone to adapt to your > clean & zap, or we can just comply with the loose standard of clean & > distclean. I think it's kind of obvious which tactic will cause more pain > in the future. i am using "clean" and "zap" too, probably not quite as long as Uz, but still for quite some years. "distclean" confuses the hell out of me! :) -- http://www.hitmen-console.org http://magicdisk.untergrund.net http://www.pokefinder.org http://ftp.pokefinder.org Da kam dann das Elfmeterschießen. Wir hatten alle die Hosen voll, aber bei mir lief's ganz flüssig. <Paul Breitner> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.Received on Sat Sep 26 10:50:32 2009
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