[Swan-dev] makefle breakage #2 recursive make rules all over the place

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Wed Feb 18 04:49:37 EET 2015


On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> except I only changed the "simple cases" .  So what are some of the
> complex cases?

I cannot answer that but,

> 2. where the "::" target feature is used (GNU Make documentation
> strongly suggests not doing this).
> For instance:
> cleanall::
>        rm -rf OBJ.*

It should really only do rm -rf OBJ.\uname -s`.`uname -m`

Paul


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