make maintainer-clean and distclean can not clean KDE sources properly

[Stephan Kulow]

Am Sunday 14 September 2003 10:42 schrieb Chris Cheney:
> I noticed a problem tonight with make maintainer-clean and distclean on
> KDE sources. It appears to be caused by cvs.sh AC_OUTPUT configure
> generation.  It processes all directories in a source tree to create the
> AC_OUTPUT entries. However, some dirs are not meant to be built and so
> do not have SUBDIRS entries.
>
> For example:
>
> kdelibs/arts/kde/mcop-dcop (KDE_3_1_BRANCH)
>
> Since there is no SUBDIRS entry for the directories after configure
> generates the Makefile and .deps dir and files make can not clean up
> after itself since make does not know anything about the directory.
> This results in a tree full of extraneous files even after the
> maintainer-clean has been run.
>
And that's a problem because? If the directory isn't compiled, there can be
errors generated because of it, no?

Greetings, Stephan

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